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fagot
/ˈfæɡ.ət/
noun 4verb 1
Collocations
3VERB + FAGOT
brought, fire
FAGOT + NOUN
bright-burning, goss, troy
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
1
Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks for fuel”).
What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
"Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."
2
Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
3
A fagotto, or bassoon.
4
A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
verb
1
To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
verb — bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
verb — fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
verb — ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
301
What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
Wiktionary02
"Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."
Wiktionary03
He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell
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