a. nonce-wd. rare–1. [irreg. f. TRACT sb.1 + -(I)FEROUS.] Carrying tracts.
1879. [J. Inglis], Yachtsman’s Holidays, ii. 52. Any resentment, however, which we may have felt at being considered vessels of wrath was overborne by the interest we felt in that curious freak of nature, a tractiferous yachtsman.
