Difference between tusk and offseta
Definitions
verb
- remove the tusks of animals
- stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
noun
- a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog
- a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
Examples
There was no crust of stalagmite overlying the mud in which the human skeleton was found, and no bones of other animals in the mud with the skeleton; but just before our visit in 1860 the tusk of a bear had been met with in some mud in a lateral embranchment of the cave, in a situation precisely similar to b, Figure 1, and on a level corresponding with that of the human skeleton.
Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks.
Once when the late G.P. Sanderson was in a keddah, noosing wild elephants, and was assulted [sic] by a vicious tusker, his life was saved by a tame female elephant, whose boy driver caused her to attack the tusker with her head, and nearly bowl him over by the force of her blows upon his ribs.
