The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Tush and Tusk

The enlarged canines of the boar. They are four in number, but the two upper tushes merely serve for a defence, and for a whetstone to the lower pair. The average length of the latter is 8 to 9 in., but only about 3 in. are without the jaw. They have been recorded up to 121 in.

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