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fagot

noun

  1. bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches
  2. bundle of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfæɡ.ət/

noun

Etymology: Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

  1. Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).

    “What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?”

    “"Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."”

  2. Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
  3. A fagotto, or bassoon.
  4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .

verb

Etymology: Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

  1. To make a fagot of (objects); to bind (objects) together in a fagot or bundle.

    “He vvas too vvarm on Picking-vvork to dvvell, / But Faggotted his Notions as they fell, / And if they Rhim'd and Rattl'd all vvas vvell.”