Crossword clues for tusker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tusker \Tusk"er\, n.
(Zo["o]l.) An elephant having large tusks.
(Zo["o]l.) A large wild boar.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. An animal, such as a bull elephant or a boar, with large tusks. Etymology 2
alt. (context UK Orkney Shetland English) A tool used in peat cutting. n. (context UK Orkney Shetland English) A tool used in peat cutting.
WordNet
n. any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar)
Wikipedia
Tusker may refer to:
- a bull elephant with genetic properties granting it great size and large tusks
- an adult male wild boar, particularly the American razorback population
- Tusker (beer), a Kenyan beer bottled by East African Breweries
- East Africa rugby union team, who tour under the nickname The Tuskers
- Tusker F.C., a Kenyan football club owned by the East African Breweries
- Florida Tuskers, a franchise in the United Football League
- Kochi Tuskers Kerala, a franchise in the Indian Premier League
- 4th Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, a historic US Army unit
Tusker is a beer brand owned by East African Breweries, with over 700,000 hectolitres being sold in Kenya per year. It is also the largest African beer brand in the Diageo group. It is a 4.2% ABV pale lager. The beer's slogan "Bia yangu, Nchi yangu" means "My beer, My country" in Swahili.
Usage examples of "tusker".
None of the People could imitate it, any more than Tusker throat and tongue could shape the proper words of a warrior.
From the belly of the flyer had come what the Tusker could only describe as a long root.
And Furtig thought the old Tusker knew that, knew also that his proposed expedition against the lairs would be hopeless.
All knew there was no fiercer fighter in the whole wilds than the Tusker female when her young was threatened.
And when they met again the Tusker patrols, they learned it had not been seen.
Sayyid felt a cold sweat trickling between his shoulders, as though an enraged Tusker were breathing down his back.
The Tusker beer he ordered was blood warm, but he drank it while he worried.
Over the edge of the bucket showed the necks of a dozen bottles of Tusker beer.
The bottle of Tusker stood close at hand and he whistled happily as he worked up a foaming lather in his armpits and across the dark hairy plain of his chest.
Jake reached out with a soap-frothed hand and lifted the Tusker bottle to his lips.
Jake retrieved two celebratory bottles of Tusker beer from his secret hoard, but the liquid was so warm that half of it exploded in a fizzing gush from the mouth of each bottle as it was opened, and there was only a mouthful for each of them.
Their leader, a mighty orc almost twice as tall as the sort of tusker Alusair was used to slaying in the Stonelands, whose much-battered breastplate was studded with grinning human skulls, was grinning at her as one large, grubby finger rubbed along the glyphs of the largest tainted tree Alusair had yet seen.
I saw one street chest-deep in tusker bodies, their blood running in a river down into the sewers.
The trick of it all is that a man never knows what the tusker will do.
The tusker was bone-still, with that cocked look which means anything but flight.