tusker

• And the deinotheriums, the hoe-tusker elephants, they like to use people for cute tug-o'-war games and then dance on the pieces! —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• This fellow was a small `tusker,' who formed one of a herd in thick thorny jungle. —  The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon
• On December 31, 2008, the putrefying dead body of a tusker was found buried in an agricultural field on the southern periphery of the reserve.
• The deafening silence is only broken by the occasional trumpeting of a wild tusker, the bark of a chital or the roar of a tiger. —  The Hindu - Front Page
• On the rolled, damp surface are the marks of the cloven feet of the swine Now there is a snapping of dead wood, a rustling of leaves, and an immense tusker--a grizzled leader of a herd--comes ponderously through the sun-dappled aisles to the edge of the road. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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