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Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion.

A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

1. Foliage; leafage. [Obs.] Shuckford.

a small fascine or fagot, steeped in wax, pitch, and glue, used in various ways, as for igniting buildings or works, or to light ditches and ramparts. Farrow.

Wharfage; quayage.

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls. Holland.

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. The common lag of people. Shak.

ters. Lobster caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar of a European bombycid moth (Stauropus fagi); -- so called from its form. Lobster louse (Zoöl.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoë astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.

Same as Wharfage. Smart.

Same as Fagot, n., 2.

Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.

The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.

bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port. -- Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor. -- Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise. -- Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringin…

Wharfage. [Also keyage.]

Fig.: The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant. Rump Parliament, or The Rump (Eng. Hist.), the remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes. It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659. The rump abolishe…

the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. -- Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the s…

Serfage.

Serfage; slavery; servitude. [Obs.] Chaucer.