Boatswain of the Royal Navy, c. 1820. The word boatswain has been in the English language since approximately 1450. It is derived from late Old English batswegen, from bat (boat) concatenated with Old Norse sveinn (swain), meaning a young man, apprentice, a follower, retainer or servant.
The talus bone (/ËteÉªlÉs/ ; Latin for ankle), astragalus /ÉËstraeÉ¡ÉlÉs/ , ÉËstrÃ¦É¡ÉlÉs or ankle bone is one of the group of foot bones known as the. Tarsus the tarsus forms the lower part of the ankle joint through its articulations with the lateral and medial malleoli of the two bones of the lower, leg the tibia and. fibula
2. talus-the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint. anklebone, astragal, astragalus. bone, os-rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates.