1syllable
tusk
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Definitions oftusk
1noun
- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
Example: "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.
- 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.
1verb
- To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
- To gore with the tusks.
- To bare or gnash the teeth.
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