fagot

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. n. A bassoon. See Fagotto. Source: opted

4. n. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. Source: opted

5. n. An old shriveled woman. Source: opted

6. v. t. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Source: opted

7. n. offensive term for a homosexual man Source: wordnet

8. n. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together Source: wordnet

9. v. ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch Source: wordnet

10. v. fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them Source: wordnet

11. v. bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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