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tusker en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz Proto-West Germanic *tunsk Old English tūsc Old English tūx Middle English tusk English tusk English -er English tusker From tusk + -er.

Meanings

  1. An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
    • The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up. 1928 June, Fred Graves, “Houdini of the Desert: Face to Face with Savage Elephants”, in Popular Science, page 19:
    • 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:
    • Negotiations to acquire a fine tusker from one young partner in another village fell through; so on the eve of the actual feast, Songi humiliated him by asking him to come to the feast as if he were the rival chief, the guest of honor. The man was deeply shamed by the invitation since he could not possibly reciprocate, and he had to send the tusker itself as payment for the invitation gifts. 1998, Alexander Moore, Cultural Anthropology: The Field Study of Human Beings, page 267:

Forms

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tuskers Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (2)

mi reiputa (an animal with tusks) · ru сека́ч (an animal with tusks)

tusker en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Old Norse torfskeri, from torf (“turf”) + skera (“to cut”), whence also Scottish Gaelic tairsgeir, toirsgeir, treidhsgeir and later forms like toirsgian (assimilated to sgian (“knife”)). Known in print from the early 19th century, but doubtless much older.

Meanings

  1. (Orkney, Scotland, Shetland, UK, especially) A tool used in peat cutting, a type of turf spade similar to a cascrom.

Forms

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tushkar alternative lexicographic
toysker alternative lexicographic
twiscar alternative lexicographic
tushker alternative lexicographic
tuskar alternative lexicographic
tuskers Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (5)

fo torvskeri (a spade used for peat cutting) · gd toirsgian (Wester Ross, Lochalsh) (a spade used for peat cutting) · ga sleán (a spade used for peat cutting) · gd treidhsgeir (a spade used for peat cutting) · gd tairsgeir (a spade used for peat cutting)