tosg

tosg
I
a tusk; from the English
II
a hack, gash, dent (Wh.):
III
a peat-cutter (Dial.); from Scottish tusk in tusk-spawd (Banff), tuskar (Ork. and Sh.), tusk, cut peats. Cf. Shet. tushker, from Norse torfskeri, turf-cutter.

Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. . 1982.

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