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tusked | tusker |

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

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.
  • References

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

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

    tusker

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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'', '' , page 19,
  • The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.
  • * 1998 , Alexander Moore, Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings , 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.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) torfskeri, from .

    Alternative forms

    * tuskar * twiscar

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Orkney, Shetland) A tool used in peat cutting.