tusk
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English tux, tusc, cognate with Old Frisian tusk, probably from the Proto-Germanic root tunthskaz, an extended form of the linguistic root of tooth.
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[edit] Noun
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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.
[edit] Translations
pointed tooth
[edit] Verb
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to 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.
[edit] Related terms
[edit] References
- "tusk" in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
[edit] Old Frisian
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tusk

