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Tusk vs Rusk - What's the difference?

tusk | rusk |

As nouns the difference between tusk and rusk

is that tusk is one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar while rusk is a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit.

As a verb tusk

is to dig up using a tusk, as boars do.

As a proper noun Rusk is

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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.

    • Related terms

    * tusked * tusker * tusklike * tusky * tusk tenon

    References

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

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

    rusk

    English

    (wikipedia rusk)

    Noun

  • a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit
  • * 1719:
    • ...he brought a large basket of rusk or biscuit, and three jars of fresh water, into the boat.
  • a twice-baked bread, slices of bread baked until they are hard and crisp (also called a zwieback )
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  • a weaning food for children
  • a cereal binder used in meat product manufacture

    • Synonyms

    * Brussels biscuit * twice-baked bread * zwieback