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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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Etymology of 'Fagot'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fagot" Quotes from Famous Books

... times. It was a century very Byzantine in tone. It combined corrupt simplicity with delicate ferocity—a curious variety of civilization. A tiger with a simper. Madame de Sevigne minces on the subject of the fagot and the wheel. That century traded a good deal in children. Flattering historians have concealed the sore, but have divulged the ...

— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo

... to everything changes, to the things that give us pleasure and to those that give us pain. It is but a sign of healthy evolution (in this chapter, I suppose I should call it "grace") that the great churches have ceased to condemn their leaders who are unsound on points which once spelt fagot and stake. To-day predestination no longer involves the same reaction, even if dropped into a conference of selected "Wee Frees." The American section of the Episcopal Church has omitted to insist on our publicly and periodically ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... half wine with the bottom of a manchet, a fagot of Parsly and a little Winter Savory, when they are boiled they take them out and break the bread in the broth and put in two or three spoonfuls of yest and a piece of sweet butter, pour to the eals laid upon sippets." ...

— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle

... addressing a bourgeois in that fashion in my day would have been flogged with a fagot, which would have afterwards been used ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... wrote you my last letter, I have received two from you of the 27th May and 3d of June, N. S. I hope you will get my two packets; that is, one of them was addressed to Mr. Chute, and in them was all my fagot ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

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