pulling, being pulled, or the force exerted in pulling
the use of motive power to pull a vehicle, or the motive power employed
in medicine, a pulling force exerted on part of the body by means of a special device to treat fractures, cure deformities, etc
the adhesive friction of a body on a surface on which it moves, e.g. a tyre on a road surface; grip
tractional adj
tractive /ʹtraktiv/ adj
[late Latin traction-, tractio, from Latin trahere to pull, draw]