Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

power take-off

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English

Syllables: pow-er -take-off
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A powered shaft on an agricultural tractor or other machine used for auxiliary equipment.

Example Sentences

"His shingle-lifting boom was built out of logs and pipework and ran off the power take-off of his tractor, and must have taken him weeks to build."

Inflected Forms

power take-offs (plural) PTO (abbreviation)

Synonyms

PTO

Questions

What does power take-off mean?: A powered shaft on an agricultural tractor or other machine used for auxiliary equipment.

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