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Meaning of Tusker | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية الفيل
Gaeilge sleán
Русский сека́ч

Examples

“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.”
“The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.”
“Negotiations to acquire a fine tusker from one young partner in another village fell through; so on the eve of the actual feast, Songi humiliated him by asking him to come to the feast as if he were the rival chief, the guest of honor. The man was deeply shamed by the invitation since he could not possibly reciprocate, and he had to send the tusker itself as payment for the invitation gifts.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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