fagot
fagot (fag"ut) , noun
[French, prob. aug. of Latin fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; compare Greek fa`kelos bundle, fagot. Compare Fagotto.]
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. — Shakespeare
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.
(Music) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
4.
A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [English] — Addison
5.
An old shriveled woman. [Slang, English]
Collocations (2)
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, English]
Fagot , transitive verb
To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. — Dryden