tusk
/ˈtʌsk/ noun B2- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life. · 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.
Plural tusks
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A WILD BOAR stood under a tree and rubbed his tusks against the trunk.
A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury.
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