ERGOT, noun In farriery, a stub, like a piece of soft horn, about the bigness of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint, and commonly hid under the tuft of the fetloc. 1. A morbid excrescence in grain; a dark colored shoot, often an inch long, from the ears of grain, particularly of rye.
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