What is the meaning of Talus?

The bone of the ankle.

A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

The slope of an embankment wall, which is thicker at the bottom than at the top.

inessive singular of talu

slope, embankment

the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone

an oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides

the heel

Source: wiktionary.org