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The first known use of tusker was in 1846
tutor1 of 2noun
a person who has the responsibility of instructing and guiding another
tutor2 of 2verb
to teach usually individually
tussocknoun
a compact bunch especially of grass or sedgealso: an area of raised solid ground in a marsh or bog that is bound together by plant roots
tussocknoun
a compact bunch especially of grass or sedgealso: an area of raised solid ground in a marsh or bog that is bound together by plant roots
tussle1 of 2verb
scuffle sense 1
tussle2 of 2noun
a physical contest or struggle
a rough argument or a struggle against difficult odds
tusk1 of 2noun
a very long large tooth (as of an elephant, walrus, or boar) that sticks out when the mouth is closed and is used especially for digging food or as a weapon
a tooth-shaped part
tusk2 of 2verb
to dig up or gash with a tusk
tuskernoun
an animal with tusksespecially: a male elephant with two normally developed tusks
1 African elephants are referred as "tuskers" when their tusks grow so long that they reach the ground.
2 No major temple festival or procession—Kerala has over 10,000 of them annually— is complete without a tusker.
3 It should be added that some of these large tusks came from Ceylon; such tuskers being believed to be descended from mainland animals imported into the island.
4 Like a family of monkeys the natives decorated the tree, while below was Burra Moti giving lusty battle to the tusker.
5 After a large tusker was electrocuted by low-hanging power lines in December, the herd returned the following day to trample the crops where he’d been buried.
6 Sixty yards away, his head towering above the surrounding bush, stood a monstrous tusker.
7 It was a shamefully long time since either she or Tusker had been to church.
说来惭愧,她和塔斯克都很久未进教堂了.
8 Ah! but there must have been a mist of blood before the tusker’s eyes; it was a tree he charged; his tusk snapped like a pipe-stalk, and the great elephant at once fell dead.”
9 He was a tusker of most forbidding appearance, and the instant his wicked little eyes fell upon Donalblane he bristled up and began gnashing his tusks ominously.
10 "Send a couple of these fellows to the keddha to tell Immat to bring out his tusker, with a couple of ropes."
11 One of Africa’s oldest and largest elephants has been killed by poachers in Kenya, according to a conservation group that protects a dwindling group of “big tuskers” estimated to be as few as 25.
12 Excellent are well-trained mules, thoroughbred Sindhu horses and noble tusker elephants. But better still is the man who has subdued himself.
已受驯服的骡、骏马与大象是优良的;然而能以(道智)制伏自己者更为优良。
13 You take that tusker right in front of you, and I'll take the big fellow to the right, and when I say 'Fire!' let drive.
14 A Kenyan elephant, thought to have been Africa's largest female tusker, has died of old age, wildlife officials have said.
15 On 5 June Tamil Nadu's forest officials tranquilised and captured the tusker.
16 It was certainly a giant tusker, but it was hard to tell if this was Satao, as the face was mutilated face and the tusks gone.
17 As more tuskers and captive elephants die, the issue is likely to get more controversial.
18 Then came the afternoon when, on a hilltop, we spotted a group of elephants, including a pair of big tuskers, about a half mile away.
19 Visuals of Arikoban's latest capture raised concerns about the number of times the tusker had been tranquilised and the injuries the animal had suffered as he was transported by officials in an open truck.
20 There are now fewer than 30 African "big tuskers" - adult bulls with ivory large enough to brush the ground - in the world.