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tusker

tusker noun: an animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.

tusker: an animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks
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Noun (1)

tusker (plural tuskers)

  1. An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
    • By climbing trees they had had a fairly good view of the herd, which they described as numbering several large tuskers, a great many cows and calves, and full-grown bulls whose ivory would be worth having.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 130
    • The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.1928 June, Fred Graves, “Houdini of the Desert: Face to Face with Savage Elephants”, in Popular Science, page 19

Noun (2)

tusker (plural tuskers)

  1. (Orkney, Scotland, Shetland, UK, especially) A tool used in peat cutting, a type of turf spade similar to a cascrom.

tusker meaning in Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

tusker in Telugu

a tusker
దంతావళము dantāvaḷamu

tusker in Malayalam

a tusker; a male elephant with prominent tusks
കൊമ്പൻ kompaṉ

tusker in Kannada

ಸಲಗ, ಗಂಡಾನೆ, ಕೊಂಬುಳ್ಳ ಆನೆ

Forms of tusker

pluraltuskers
alternative formtuskar
alternative formtoysker
alternative formtushkar
alternative formtushker
alternative formtwiscar

Origin of tusker

From tusk + -er.

From Old Norse torfskeri, from torf (“turf”) + skera (“to cut”), whence also Scottish Gaelic tairsgeir, toirsgeir, treidhsgeir and later forms like toirsgian (assimilated to sgian (“knife”)). Known in print from the early 19th century, but doubtless much older.

Questions about tusker

What does tusker mean?
Tusker means an animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
What is tusker in Telugu?
Tusker in Telugu is దంతావళము (dantāvaḷamu). See Tusker meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is tusker?
Tusker is a noun.
What is the plural of tusker?
The plural of tusker is tuskers.

Words near tusker in the dictionary

  1. Tuskegee Airman
  2. Tuskegee Airmen
  3. Tuskegeean
  4. Tuskegeeans
  5. Tuskegees
  6. tusker
  7. tuskers
  8. tuskfish
  9. tuskfishes
  10. tuskier
  11. tuskiest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tusker (page history and authors); దంతావళము (Telugu) (page history and authors); കൊമ്പൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); tusker (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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