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