Obs. [a. OF. artre, mod. artison; cf. artiron in Cotgr.] A wood-worm. (Cf. ART-WORM.)
1622. R. Hawkins, Voy. S. Sea (1847), 119. A certain worm called broma by the Spaniards and by us arters … eat it so full of holes that all the water soaked out.
