different between twiscar vs tusker
twiscar
English
Noun
twiscar (plural twiscars)
- Alternative form of tusker (“peat-cutting tool”)
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tusker
English
Etymology 1
From tusk +? -er.
Noun
tusker (plural tuskers)
- An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks.
- 1928 June, Fred Graves, Houdini of the Desert: Face to Face with Savage Elephants, Popular Science, page 19,
- The massive tusker leading the herd stopped in his tracks. His ears went out, his long sinuous trunk up.
- 1928 June, Fred Graves, Houdini of the Desert: Face to Face with Savage Elephants, Popular Science, page 19,
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old Norse torfskeri, from torf (“turf”) + skera (“to cut”), whence also Scottish Gaelic tairsgear, toirsgear and later forms like toirsgein (assimilated to sgian (“knife”)). Known in print from the early 19th century, but doubtless much older.
Alternative forms
- tuskar, toysker, tushkar, tushker, twiscar
Noun
tusker (plural tuskers)
- (Britain, especially Scotland, Orkney, Shetland) A tool used in peat cutting, a type of spade similar to a cascrom.
References
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Tuskar”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 1 (Ti–U), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 512, column 3.
- Wright, Joseph (1905) The English Dialect Dictionary?[2], volume 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 276
Anagrams
- Kuster, Turkes
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