talon

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
2. noun One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
3. noun 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. noun The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
5. noun The remaining stock of undealt cards.
6. noun 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.

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Word family

taloned talons