FAGOT

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

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.
n.

A bassoon. See Fagotto.

4.
n.

A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison.

5.
n.

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.]

6.
v.

To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.


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