Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal. · One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. · 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.) · The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
From Middle English talon, taloun, from Old French talon (“heel, spur”), from Medieval Latin tālōnem, from Proto-Romance *tālōnis, from Latin tālus (“ankle”).
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