[f. as prec. + -ER1.] A beast having tusks, esp. an elephant or wild boar.
1859. Tennent, Ceylon, II. VIII. i. 280. Some natives,… attracted by a noise in the jungle, witnessed a combat between a tusker and one without tusks.
1865. Livingstone, Zambesi, ix. 188. The tusker, fearing less, keeps his trunk down.
1887. E. Gilliat, Forest Outlaws, 238. He … would fare forth in quest of a stag, a fox, or even a tusker [wild boar].
1893. Selous, Trav. S. E. Africa, 372. About twenty elephants…, but no good tuskers.
