Tusked vs Tusker - What's the difference?
tusked | tusker |
Furnished with tusks.
(tusk)
One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
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 .
An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
* 1928 June, Fred Graves, Houdini of the Desert: Face to Face with Savage Elephants'', '' ,
* 1998 , Alexander Moore, Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings ,
As an adjective tusked
is furnished with tusks.As a verb tusked
is (tusk).As a noun tusker is
an animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks or tusker can be (uk|orkney|shetland) a tool used in peat cutting.tusked
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Adjective
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(head)tusk
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(wikipedia tusk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
References
* *Etymology 2
tusker
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Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)page 19,
- The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.
page 267,
- Negotiations to acquire a fine tusker' from one young partner in another village fell through; so on the eve of the actual feast, Songi humiliated him by asking him to come to the feast as if he were the rival chief, the guest of honor. The man was deeply shamed by the invitation since he could not possibly reciprocate, and he had to send the ' tusker itself as payment for the invitation gifts.