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noun

fagot 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.

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.

(Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.

A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. (Eng.)

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.)

verb

Fagot v. t. (past & past part. fagoted; pres. part. fagoting) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

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"Fagot" Quotes from Famous Books

... known them!" cried the Canadian, rising suddenly, and laying hold of a blazing fagot, which he held up to the ...

— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid

... nineteen, who now came from behind the house with a fagot of wood, threw it down, and went in, to come back in a few moments with a large brown jug, at the top of which was some froth, which the wind blew off as the vessel ...

— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn

... reached within—through—and then, without—the rays of steel; dragged in the line beyond, passed it, inboard, to the bowsman, and then, twice sundering the rope near the chocks—dropped the intercepted fagot of steel into the sea; and was all fast again. That instant, the White Whale made a sudden rush among the remaining tangles of the other lines; by so doing, irresistibly dragged the more involved boats of ...

— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... fairy folk change me into a blazing fagot, or a bar of hot iron, then throw me far from you, Janet, into the cold, clear well, throw me with ...

— Stories from the Ballads - Told to the Children • Mary MacGregor

... the power from Rome, "and bring it home unto his British bower;" that he should "root out from the land all the razored skulls;" and that he should neither spare "man in his rage nor woman in his lust;" and that, in the time of his next successor but one, "there should come in the fagot and the stake." Master Heywood closes Merlin's prophecies at his own day, and does not give even a glimpse of what was to befall England after his decease. Many other prophecies, besides those quoted by him, were, he says, dispersed abroad, in his day, under the name of Merlin; but he gives his readers ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

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