3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fagot
n 1: a disparaging term for an openly homosexual man [syn: {faggot},
{fag}, {fairy}, {pansy}, {queer}, {poof}, {poove}, {pouf}]
2: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together [syn: {faggot}]
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