Definitions for tusk

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Spelling: [tuhsk]

IPA: /tʌsk/

Tusk is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in tusk (kstu).

Definitions for tusk

noun

1. (in certain animals) a tooth developed to great length, usually one of a pair, as in the elephant, walrus, and wild boar, but singly in the narwhal.
2. a long, pointed, or protruding tooth.
3. a projection resembling the tusk of an animal.
4. Also called gain. Carpentry. a diagonally cut shoulder at the end of a timber for strengthening a tenon.

verb (used with object)

1. to dig up or tear off with the tusks.
2. to gore with a tusk.

verb (used without object)

1. to dig up or thrust at the ground with the tusks.

Origin of tusk

before 900; Middle English, metathetic variant of tux, Old English, variant of tusc tush²; cognate with Old Frisian tusk; akin to too

Examples for tusk

As for his face, all tusk and jaw and no brow, where had Parr gotten such an idea of it?

The film aims to raise awareness and funds for tusk Trust, a UK-based conservation charity, of which Prince William is patron.

The first sequence of the show was set to "tusk" by Fleetwood Mac.

As a patron of tusk Trust, a conservation charity, Williamtravelled to Botswana in 2010 to raise awareness of the issue.

When the balance was swung true, he tried to lift a tusk into the scale.

How I should like to see the enormous rat that could have carried such a tusk!

Like lightning the hog threw him and then ripped him with his tusk.

In the film world, it was really Kevin Smith who brought Osment back into the fold with tusk.

tusk underlies its cloth empurpled by juice of the dye-shell.

Johnny Depp has a pretty sizeable role in tusk as the Montreal private eye Guy LaPointe.