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Webster 1913 Edition


Tusk

Tusk

(tŭsk)
,
Noun.
(Zool.)
Same as
Torsk
.

Tusk

,
Noun.
[OE.
tusk
, the same word as
tusch
, AS.
tusc
. See
Tush
a tooth.]
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

TUSK

,
Noun.
The long pointed tooth of certain rapacious, carnivorous or fighting animals; as the tusks of the boar.

TUSK

,
Verb.
I.
To gnash the teeth, as a boar.

Definition 2024


Tusk

Tusk

See also: tusk

Saterland Frisian

Noun

Tusk m

  1. (anatomy) tooth

tusk

tusk

See also: Tusk

English

Walruses with tusks.
Men with elephant tusks.

Noun

tusk (plural tusks)

  1. 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.
  2. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  3. A tusk shell.
  4. (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

Verb

tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)

  1. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  2. (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.

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)

  1. A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).


Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cognate with Old English tūsc.

Noun

tusk m

  1. tooth

Declension

Descendants

  • West Frisian: tosk