Thesaurus: fagot

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1. 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.
2. n. 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. n. A bassoon. See Fagotto.
4. n. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
5. n. An old shriveled woman.
6. v. t. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
7. n. offensive term for a homosexual man
8. n. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
9. v. ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
10. v. fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
11. v. bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
12. 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. Shak. 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. (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto. 4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison. 5. 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.] To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.