Thesaurus: fagot
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.
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Definitions
- 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.
- 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.
- n. A bassoon. See Fagotto.
- n. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
- n. An old shriveled woman.
- v. t. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
- n. offensive term for a homosexual man
- n. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- v. ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
- v. fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
- v. bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot