TUSK
tusk
(noun) a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
ivory, tusk
(noun) a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
tusk, detusk
(verb) remove the tusks of animals; “tusk an elephant”
horn, tusk
(verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; “the rhino horned the explorer”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
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.
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.
A sharp point.
The share of a plough.
Verb
tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)
To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
To gore with the tusks.
(obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.
Etymology 2
Noun
tusk (plural tusks)
A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
Source: Wiktionary
Tusk, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Same as Torsk.
Tusk, n. Etym: [OE. tusk, the same word as tusch, AS. tusc. See Tush a tooth.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
3. (Carp.)
Definition: 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, v. i.
Definition: To bare or gnash the teeth. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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