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.
Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines.
The tusky but soft-hearted little brute kept nodding his round, sparsely covered head while he listened, exuding a smell of lavender-water, cigars, and gutta-percha.
