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Entry 6 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

fagot

/(făg"ŭt)/ · fag·ot · IPA /ˈfæɡ.ət/
01 n. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortific…
  1. 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.
  2. 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. 3.
    A bassoon. See Fagotto.(Mus.) See: Fagotto
  4. 4.
    A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.[Eng.]
  5. 5.
    An old shriveled woman.[Slang, Eng.]
Phrases & compounds
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.
02 v. t. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting
  1. 1.
    To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.