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twiscar

twiscar is the alternative form 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.

Forms of twiscar

pluraltwiscars

Questions about twiscar

What is twiscar the alternative form of?
Twiscar is the alternative form of tusker.

Words near twiscar in the dictionary

  1. twirls one's thumbs
  2. twirly
  3. twirp
  4. twirps
  5. twirties
  6. twiscar
  7. twiscars
  8. twise
  9. Twisp
  10. Twiss
  11. twissel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: twiscar (page history and authors); tusker (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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