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Whooee! Latin? Dunno, not me.
But http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl?pull
which is an English-Latin dictionary, says:
traho trahere traxi tractum [to trail , pull along; to drag, pull violently; to draw in, take up] of air, [to breathe; to draw out], hence [to lengthen] [to draw together, contract]. Transf. [to draw, attract; to take in or on, assume, derive; to prolong, spin out; to ascribe, refer, interpret]. Hence partic. tractus -a -um, of speech, [fluent, flowing]. N. as subst. [a flock of wool].
Volvo et traho?
That trahere (infinitive?) is cool, since you'd guess (I'd GUESS) there was some t/d shift to drehen (modern German); we get "draw" from it in English, and use as in "drawbar pull."
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Gregg; Mpls, MN; 1987 745, 1967 Amazon 4-dr.
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