semi-tractor
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The tractor component of a semi-trailer truck or articulated lorry.
Example Sentences
- "The fleet has 48 semi-tractors and 164 trailers that transport 110,000 tons of parts and supplies annually over 1 million miles of roads."
- "Some people think diesel fuel is only used in semi-tractors (Figure 9.3) or heavy equipment."
- "Security seal use applies when carrying merchandise in semi-truck trailers (highway trailers) pulled by semi-tractors and when railroad flatcars carry the trailers, the latter referred to as piggyback (piggybacking)."
Inflected Forms
semi-tractors (plural)
semi tractor (alternative)
Phrases
long hauler
monster truck