Usually means: Hard, elongated tooth in animals.
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  1. tusk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tusk: Merriam-Webster
  3. tusk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tusk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tusk: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tusk: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tusk, tusk: Wordnik
  8. tusk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tusk: Wiktionary
  10. tusk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tusk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tusk: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tusk: Dictionary.com
  14. tusk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tusk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Tusk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tusk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tusk: Rhymezone
  20. tusk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tusk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tusk: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tusk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tusk: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tusk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tusk: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. tusk: Medical dictionary

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  1. TUSK: Acronym Finder

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  1. tusk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See tusked as well.)

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noun:  One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
noun:  A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
noun:  A tusk shell.
noun:  (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
noun:  A sharp point.
noun:  The share of a plough.
verb:  To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
verb:  To gore with the tusks.
verb:  (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.
noun:  A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
noun:  A male surname from Kashubian

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