tusker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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

词形变化

tuskers plural tuskers plural tuskar alternative toysker alternative tushkar alternative tushker alternative twiscar alternative

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz
Proto-West Germanic *tunsk
Old English tūsc
Old English tūx
Middle English tusk
English tusk
English -er
English tusker
From tusk + -er.
词源 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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