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Fagot

/ˈfæɡ.ət/

(collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)

📖 Definitions of "Fagot"

noun
  1. 1

    (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)

  2. 2

    Burdensome baggage.

  3. 3

    A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.

  4. 4

    A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.

noun
  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    A fagotto, or bassoon.

  3. 3

    A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.

verb
  1. 1

    To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.

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