Obs. Also argo. [a. F. argot ‘the Spurre of a Cocke … the heele or talon of a hog’ (Cotgr.), mod. ergot; origin unknown. Cf. ERGOT.]
a. The spur of a cock; the similarly situated excrescence on the feet of other animals. b. A spur left in pruning a tree.
c. 1400. MS. Maystre of Game (Halliw.). More gret argos then hath an hynde.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard., II. 38. Argot … the Old Extremity of a Branch which has been formerly shorten’d at some distance from the Eye.
1708. Phil. Trans., XXVI. 79. Plectronites, the Argot, or Cockspur Ichthyodont.
