tushker

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtʌʃkə(ɹ)/ === Noun === tushker (plural tushkers) Alternative form of tusker (“peat-cutting tool”). 1950, British Council, University of Aberdeen, The Viking Congress: Lerwick, July 1950, Issue 132, page 110, […] neighbour's and measure the distance of his own by throwing his tushker or peat spade. 1975, School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University, Tocher: Tales, Songs, Tradition, Issues 17-23; Issues 25-29, page 38, I mind [my father] tellin me a story: he wis a young fellow, and he was playin wi a tushker in the burn, cuttin peats, an they were an old man 'at cam up.