Толковый словарь английского языка - tusk
Tusk
tusk
I. noun Etymology: Middle English, alteration of tux, from Old English tūx; akin to Old English tūsc tush Date: before 12th century an elongated greatly enlarged tooth (as of an elephant or walrus) that projects when the mouth is closed and serves especially for digging food or as a weapon, one of the small projections on a ~ tenon, ~ed adjective ~like adjective II. transitive verb Date: 1629 to dig up with a ~
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n. & v. --n. 1 a long pointed tooth, esp. protruding from a closed mouth, as in the elephant, walrus, etc. 2 a tusklike tooth or other object. --v.tr. gore, thrust at, or tear up with a tusk or tusks. Phrases and idioms tusk shell 1 any of various molluscs of the class Scaphopoda. 2 its long tubular tusk-shaped shell. Derivatives tusked adj. (also in comb.). tusky adj. Etymology: ME alt. of OE tux var. of tusc: cf. TUSH(2) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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