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Webster 1913 Edition
Tusk
1.
(Zool.)
One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
2.
(Zool.)
A toothshell, or Dentalium; – called also
tusk-shell
. 3.
(Carp.)
A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
Tusk
(tŭsk)
, Verb.
I.
To bare or gnash the teeth.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Tusk
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Definition 2024
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See also: Tusk
English
Walruses with tusks.
Men with elephant tusks.
Noun
tusk (plural tusks)
- 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.
Translations
pointed tooth
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Verb
tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)
Related terms
References
- “tusk” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Etymology 2
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Noun
tusk (plural tusks)
- A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Cognate with Old English tūsc.
Noun
tusk m
Declension
Declension of tusk (strong a-stem, masculine)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tusk | tuskar, tuska |
| accusative | tusk | tuskar, tuska |
| genitive | tuskes | tuska |
| dative | tuske | tuskum, tuskem |
Descendants
- West Frisian: tosk