Talon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
3. isim 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. isim 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. isim The remaining stock of undealt cards.
6. isim 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.
7. özel isim A surname transferred from the nickname.
8. özel isim A male given name from English of modern usage.

   “'Very well, I shall call you Talon from now on. What does the name mean, in the tongue of the small folk?' 'It is a claw, like that found on a hawk,' Talon said.”