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Tusker

noun

Definitions

Noun

1
An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
"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."
2
A tool used in peat cutting, a type of turf spade similar to a cascrom. Orkney, Scotland, Shetland, UK, especially
3
any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From tusk + -er.

Etymology 2

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.

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