tusker

Meaning

Noun

• An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
• A tool used in peat cutting, a type of spade similar to a cascrom.

Origin

• From tusk + -er.
• From Old Norse torfskeri, from torf + skera, whence also Scottish Gaelic tairsgear, toirsgear and later forms like toirsgein (assimilated to sgian). Known in print from the early 19th century, but doubtless much older.