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Fagot

//ˈfæɡ.ət// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”). alt-of, alternative

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

  2. 2
    a bundle of sticks and branches bound together wordnet
  3. 3
    Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”). alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    offensive term for a homosexual man wordnet
  5. 5
    A fagotto, or bassoon. obsolete
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  1. 6
    A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company . Ireland, UK, obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle. transitive

    "He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell"

  2. 2
    bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot wordnet
  3. 3
    fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them wordnet
  4. 4
    ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

Etymology 2

Most likely from Italian fagotto, from Latin fascis.

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