fag·ot
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| 1. | a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc. |
| 2. | a bundle; bunch. |
| 3. | a bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded, hammered, or rolled together at high temperature. |
| 4. | bouquet garni. |
| 5. | to bind or make into a fagot. |
| 6. | to ornament with fagoting. |
Also, British, faggot.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < AF, OF; of obscure orig.
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fag·ot·er, noun
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n.
tr.v. fag·ot·ed also fag·got·ed, fag·ot·ing also fag·got·ing, fag·ots also fag·gots
[Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal, possibly from Vulgar Latin *facus, from Greek phakelos, bundle.] |
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| fagot | |
noun | |
| 1. | offensive term for an openly homosexual man |
| 2. | a bundle of sticks and branches bound together |
verb | |
| 1. | ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife" [syn: faggot] |
| 2. | fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them [syn: faggot] |
| 3. | bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks" [syn: faggot] |
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Fagot
Fag"ot\n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. ??????? 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. 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. 3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto. 4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] --Addison. 5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] 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.]| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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