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Husked vs Tusked - What's the difference?

husked | tusked |

As verbs the difference between husked and tusked

is that husked is past tense of husk while tusked is past tense of tusk.

As adjectives the difference between husked and tusked

is that husked is covered with a husk while tusked is furnished with tusks.

husked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (husk)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Covered with a husk.
    • (Webster 1913)

    tusked

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Furnished with tusks.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (tusk)

    • tusk

    English

    (wikipedia tusk)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
    • Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
  • A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  • A tusk shell.
  • (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth .

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  • (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.

    • Related terms

    * tusked * tusker * tusklike * tusky * tusk tenon

    References

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the torsk.
    • (Webster 1913) ----