Busk vs. Tusk

Busknoun

A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

Busknoun

A corset.

Busknoun

(obsolete) A kind of linen.

Buskverb

To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

Buskverb

(obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.

Buskverb

(intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport

Buskverb

(nautical) To tack, cruise about.

Busknoun

A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.

Busknoun

Among the Creek Indians, a feast of first fruits celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten. The feast usually continues four days. On the first day the new fire is lighted, by friction of wood, and distributed to the various households, an offering of green corn, including an ear brought from each of the four quarters or directions, is consumed, and medicine is brewed from snakeroot. On the second and third days the men physic with the medicine, the women bathe, the two sexes are taboo to one another, and all fast. On the fourth day there are feasting, dancing, and games.

Buskverb

To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

Buskverb

To go; to direct one's course.

Buskverb

perform music or other entertainment in the street or another public place for monetary donations

Buskverb

improvise.

Busknoun

a stay or stiffening strip for a corset.

Busk

A busk (also spelled busque) is a rigid element of a corset at the centre front of the garment. Two types exist, one- and two-part busks.Single-piece busks were used in and bodices from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries and were intended to keep the front of the corset or bodice straight and upright.

Tusknoun

One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.

Tusknoun

A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.

Tusknoun

A tusk shell.

Tusknoun

(carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.

Tusknoun

A sharp point.

Tusknoun

The share of a plough.

Tusknoun

A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).

Tuskverb

To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.

Tuskverb

To gore with the tusks.

Tuskverb

(obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.

Tusknoun

Same as Torsk.

Tusknoun

One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.

Tusknoun

A toothshell, or Dentalium; - called also tusk-shell.

Tusknoun

A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets. Thus, in the illustration, a is the tusk, and each of the several parts, or offsets, is called a tooth.

Tuskverb

To bare or gnash the teeth.

Tusknoun

a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

Tusknoun

a long pointed tooth specialized for fighting or digging; especially in an elephant or walrus or hog

Tuskverb

stab or pierce with a horn or tusk;

Tuskverb

remove the tusks of animals;

Tusknoun

a long pointed tooth, especially one which protrudes from the closed mouth, as in the elephant, walrus, or wild boar.

Tusknoun

a long, tapering object or projection resembling a tusk

Tusk

Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canine teeth, as with pigs and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors.