tusk

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  An adult elephant with long tusks
• WordNet 3.6
  • v tusk remove the tusks of animals "tusk an elephant"
  • v tusk stab or pierce with a horn or tusk "the rhino horned the explorer"
  • n tusk a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
  • n tusk a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
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• Interesting fact: Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.
• • Tusk (Carp) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.
  • Tusk (Zoöl) A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
  • Tusk (Zoöl) One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
  • n Tusk tŭsk (Zoöl) Same as Torsk.
  • v. i Tusk tŭsk To bare or gnash the teeth.
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• Interesting fact: George Washington's teeth were actually: carved from animal tusks, some of them were also somebody else's teeth, and some of them were from animals like deer and cales.
• • n tusk A long pointed tooth; especially, a tooth long enough to protrude from the lips when the mouth is closed. Tusks are extremely prominent in some animals, as elephants, mastodons, and other proboscideans; the narwhal among cetaceans; various pachyderms, as the hippopotamus, boar, and babirussa; the walrus among pinniped carnivores; and the fossil saber-toothed tigers among ordinary carnivores. Tusks may be upper or lower; they are usually upper, but in the dinotherium lower. They are either incisors or canines in different animals, but are usually canines. They are always paired, except in the narwhal. The single developed upper incisor of the male narwhal is the longest tusk known, reaching a length of 10 or 12 feet, and it is spirally grooved as if twisted. Elephants' tusks are upper incisors, and furnish most of the ivory of commerce. The tusks of the walrus are upper canines; those of the boar tribe are canines, both upper and lower. The tusks of the dinotherium are a pair of lower incisors turned down out of the mouth. The socalled tusks or tushes of the horse are ordinary canines. See cuts under babirussa, boar, Dinotherium, elephant, Mastodontinæ, monodon, narwhal, Phacochærus, saber-toothed, and walrus.
  • n tusk A sharp projecting point resembling in some degree a tusk or tooth of an animal. Specifically— A tooth of a harrow.
  • n tusk In locks, a sharp projecting point or claw which forms a means of attachment or engagement.
  • n tusk In carpentry, a bevel shoulder on a tenon to give it additional strength.
  • n tusk A tooth-shell. See Dentaliidæ, and cut under tooth-shell.
  • tusk To gore with the tusks.
  • tusk To move, turn, or thrust with the tusks.
  • tusk To gnash the teeth, as a boar; show the tusks.
  • n tusk A fish: same as torsk.
  • n tusk A tuft; a bush.
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• Interesting fact: The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost 16 feet high.
• • n Tusk tusk a long, protruding tooth on either side of the mouth of certain animals: a sharp point: the share of a plough
  • v.t Tusk to gore with the tusks
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