From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
fagot \fag"ot\ (f[a^]g"[u^]t) n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax,
facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr.
fa`kelos bundle, fagot. Cf. {Fagotto}.]
1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees,
used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or
other purposes in fortification; a fascine. --Shak.
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2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into
bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding
heat; a pile.
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3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See {Fagotto}.
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4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster
of a company. [Eng.] --Addison.
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5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.]
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{Fagot iron}, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from
fagots.
{Fagot vote}, the vote of a person who has been constituted a
voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes.
[Political cant, Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fagot \Fag"ot\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fagoted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fagoting}.]
To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle;
also, to collect promiscuously. --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fagot
n 1: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: {fagot},
{faggot}, {fag}, {fairy}, {nance}, {pansy}, {queen},
{queer}, {poof}, {poove}, {pouf}]
2: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together [syn: {fagot},
{faggot}]
v 1: ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted
the blouse for his wife" [syn: {faggot}, {fagot}]
2: fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
[syn: {faggot}, {fagot}]
3: bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the
sticks" [syn: {faggot}, {fagot}, {faggot up}]
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