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

1. noun. Same as Torsk.
2. noun. One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.
3. noun. A toothshell, or Dentalium; -- called also tusk-shell.
4. noun. 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.
5. intransitive verb. To bare or gnash the teeth.
6. noun. a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
7. noun. a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

   Synonyms: ivory

8. verb. remove the tusks of animals

   "tusk an elephant"

   Synonyms: detusk

9. verb. stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

   "the rhino horned the explorer"

   Synonyms: horn

Synonyms

ivory, detusk, horn

Common word forms

tusks, tusked, tusker, tusking, tuskless

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