talon

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
    — and now doth gaſtly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life.
  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.
    — The locks were constructed with two or three levers, and sometimes with a common tumbler. The talon is the secret; for after locking the bolt out, the key is turned round again quietly to catch the nib and force the talon up
  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. historical

词形变化

talons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
taloned talonless talonlike
相关词
Coed-talon

词源

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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