Tusk Definition

tŭsk
tusks
noun
tusks
In elephants, wild boars, walruses, etc., a very long, large, pointed tooth, usually one of a pair, projecting outside the mouth and used for defense, digging up food, etc.
Webster's New World
Any tooth or projection suggestive of a tusk.
Webster's New World

(carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.

Wiktionary

A fish, the torsk.

Wiktionary
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
To gore or dig with the tusks or a tusk.
American Heritage
To dig, gore, etc. with a tusk or tusks.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Tusk

Noun

Singular:
tusk
Plural:
tusks

Origin of Tusk

  • From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tÅ«x, tÅ«sc (“grinder, canine tooth, tusk"), from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“tooth"), extended form of Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth"). Cognate with West Frisian tosk (“tooth"), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth") (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic [script?] (tunþus, “tooth") and [script?] (tundi, “thorn, tooth"). More at tooth.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English tux, tusce from Old English tūx, tūsc canine tooth dent- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tusk Sentence Examples

  • A tusk in the British Museum measures io ft.

  • Payne in Madras, one tusk measures 6 ft.

  • In the wild boar (Sus scrofa) the upper or hinder surface of the lower tusk, which has no enamel, inclines obliquely outwards and is broader than the outer surface.

  • Ganesha 's most unusual facet is his single tusk, the other having broken off.

  • The props on Comer 's desk include period pipes, maps, and a walrus tusk.

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