Definition of "talon" in English

noun

1. A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.

2. (zoology) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

3. (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.)

4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

5. (card games) The remaining stock of undealt cards.

6. (finance, historical) 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.