Usually means: Hard, elongated tooth in animals.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (tusk)

noun:  One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
noun:  A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
noun:  A tusk shell.
noun:  (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
noun:  A sharp point.
noun:  The share of a plough.
verb:  To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
verb:  To gore with the tusks.
verb:  (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.
noun:  A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).

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