Dictionary Entry
tusk
tusk is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Same as Torsk. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Same as Torsk.
- 2noun
One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
- 3noun
A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
- 4noun
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.
- 5intransitive verb
To bare or gnash the teeth.
- 6noun
a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
- 7noun
a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
Synonyms
- 8verb
remove the tusks of animals
"tusk an elephant"
- 9verb
stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
"the rhino horned the explorer"
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