talon

Meanings

1. A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
2. One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
3. A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.)
4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
5. The remaining stock of undealt cards.
6. A document that could be detached and presented in exchange for a block of further coupons on a bond, when the original block had been used up.

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A male given name from English of modern usage.

Etymology

From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin tālōnem, from Proto-Romance *tālōnis, from Latin tālus (“ankle”).