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▪ I. tusker|ˈtʌskə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
A beast having tusks, esp. an elephant or wild boar.
1859Tennent Ceylon II. viii. i. 280 Some natives,..attracted by a noise in the jungle, witnessed a combat between a tusker and one without tusks. 1865Livingstone Zambesi ix. 188 The tusker, fearing less, keeps his trunk down. 1887E. Gilliat Forest Outlaws 238 He..would fare forth in quest of a stag, a fox, or even a tusker [wild boar]. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 372 About twenty elephants.., but no good tuskers.
▪ II. tusker
var. tuskar. |