Obs. Forms: 1, 4 tuxl, 6 tussle, tuscle. [OE. *tuscel, tuxl, derivative of tusc, tux, TUSK sb.1] = TUSK sb.1 1.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 104. Wið onfealle ʓefoh fóx asleah of cucum þone tuxl.
a. 1400. Octouian, 929. Twey tuxlys out of hys mouth set, As of a bore.
1600. F. Walker, Sp. Mandeville, 10 b. This man … was borne … with all the teeth and tussles which he nowe hath. Ibid., 25 b. Her teeth and tussles … began to bud and growe out anew. Ibid., 149. A wilde Boare, with two great tuscles shooting aboue foure spans out of his mouth.
