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–noun

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.

–verb (used with object)

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.

]

—Related forms

fag·ot·er, noun

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fag·ot also fag·got Audio Help (fāg'ət) Pronunciation Key
n.

A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.
A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.

tr.v. fag·ot·ed also fag·got·ed, fag·ot·ing also fag·got·ing, fag·ots also fag·gots

To bind into a fagot; bundle.
To decorate with fagoting.

[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.]

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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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