Associations to the word «Talon»

Wiktionary

TALON, noun. A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
TALON, noun. (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
TALON, noun. (architecture) 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.)
TALON, noun. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
TALON, noun. In the card game bezique, the remaining stock of undealt cards.

Dictionary definition

TALON, noun. A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats