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I'm amazed that the John Deere sense wouldn't be the first one that comes to mind on hearing the word tractor (at least for a US'n - I never know which way the rest of y'all's gonna jump), and I'm a city boy, born and raised.
I concur with the above, except I would not have used the word amazed. Flabbergasted, dumbfounded or stupefied would come closer to describing my reaction to learning that anyone thinks of anything other than a "John Deere" type of vehicle when they hear the word tractor. That which you call a semi is also so-caled here, but I would tend to think of it simply as a truck, part of a truck-and-trailer unit.
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