fagot
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈfæɡ.ət/
Noun

fagot (plural fagots)

  1. Alternative form of faggot
    • 1588, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, Act 3 Scene 1:
      What fool hath added water to the sea, \ Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
  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, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
  4. (UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
Verb

fagot (fagots, present participle fagoting; past and past participle fagoted)

  1. (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.



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