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hammer-toe1886
1886 New Sydenham Soc. LexiconHammer-toe..a distortion of the second toe..so that it is bent upwards at an angle, the two terminal phalanges being flexed.
1894 Daily News 4 May 6/4 That resemblance to a section of a square arch which is known..as ‘hammer toe’.