English

Verb

tractor out ‎(third-person singular simple present tractors out, present participle tractoring out, simple past and past participle tractored out)

1. (transitive) To dismiss (a tenant, etc.) while replacing manual labour with tractors. [1930s]
   • 1965, Oscar Cargill, Toward a Pluralistic Criticism:

     How is one to elucidate or scrutinize Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath with no reference to the Dust Bowl, the tractoring out of the Okies...

   • 1973, Lucas Webb, Stribling: A Novel:

     But there was no place to go to farm or settle; the farms were being deserted, the big combines tractoring out the shacks and the little fields...