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tuskers

tuskers is the plural of tusker.

Meaning of tusker

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

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.

Questions about tuskers

What is tuskers the plural of?
Tuskers is the plural of tusker.

Words near tuskers in the dictionary

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

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