fagot

UK /ˈfæɡ.ət/ US /ˈfæɡ.ət/
noun 4verb 1

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

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