1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Talus

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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 26
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See also Talus (fortification) on Wikipedia; talus on Wiktionary; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer.

​TALUS (Lat. for the “ankle-bone”), in architecture, the slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top, to resist the pressure of the earth behind it.

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