fagot /(făg"ŭt)/

fag·ot

fagot

n.
  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.
  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. A bassoon. See Fagotto. (Mus.)
  4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.]
  5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.]

Phrases & Compounds
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.

Fagot

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting

  1. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.