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English Dictionary: fagot by the DICT Development Group
3 results for fagot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fagot
n
  1. offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf]
  2. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
    Synonym(s): fagot, faggot
v
  1. ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife"
    Synonym(s): faggot, fagot
  2. fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
    Synonym(s): faggot, fagot
  3. bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the sticks"
    Synonym(s): faggot, fagot, faggot up
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.
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