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Tusk - What does it mean?

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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.
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    Etymology 2

    Noun

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

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.