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Tusk

noun

A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses. Synonym: ivory.

A long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog.

verb

Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk. Synonym: horn.

Remove the tusks of animals. Synonym: detusk.

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"Tusk" Quotes from Famous Books

... artificers were started making cribbage-boards long ago and it seems impossible to stop them. Every summer they come in from their winter hunting with fresh supplies carved during the leisure of the long nights. The beautiful walrus tusk becomes almost an ugly thing when it is thus hacked flat and bored full of holes. The best pieces of Esquimau carving are not these things, made by the dozen, but the domestic implements made for their own use, and ...

— Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled - A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska • Hudson Stuck

... the tusk, Cried: "Ho! what have we here. So very round, and smooth, and sharp? To me 'tis very clear, This wonder of an elephant Is very ...

— The New McGuffey Fourth Reader • William H. McGuffey

... in doing so his head came close to the bear's. The Grizzly had partly recovered, and throwing his head upward he closed his jaws upon McKiernan's forehead, with a snap like a steel trap. One lower tusk entered the left eye socket, and an upper canine tooth sunk into the skull. McKiernan fell face downward, his arms under his face, and the bear slid over the edge and rolled down the almost vertical wall into ...

— Bears I Have Met--and Others • Allen Kelly

... older, Fargu began to tremble, for he found it steadily growing harder to restrain him. He did not know what fear was, and that not because he did not know danger; for he had had a severe laceration from the razor-like tusk of a boar—whose spine, however, he had severed with one blow of his hunting-knife before Fargu ...

— Harper's Young People, December 2, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... this, there is yet that which thou wilt not get. It is needful for me to wash my head, and shave my beard, and I require the tusk of Yskithyrwyn Penbaedd to shave myself withal, neither shall I profit by its use if it be not plucked alive out ...

— The Mabinogion • Lady Charlotte Guest

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