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Definition of Fagoting

1. Noun. Embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches.

Definition of Fagoting

1. Noun. a decoration of a fabric achieved by removing threads and tying others into bunches ¹

2. Noun. the joining of hemmed edges of fabric with crisscrossed threads ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fagoting

1. a type of embroidery [n -S] - See also: embroidery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fagoting

Literary usage of Fagoting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dressmaking: A Manual for Schools and Colleges by Jane Fales (1917)
"fagoting is usually done with fairly firmly twisted materials in silks, wools, ... The edges to be joined by fagoting cannot be raw but must be finished in ..."

2. Scrap Metals: Study of Iron and Steel Old Material, Its Preparation and Markets by George Henry Manlove, Charles Vickers (1918)
"Wrought and soft steel bars, shape and plate ends, punchings and shearings, free from curly clippings and hard steel all suitable for fagoting. Cut Forge. ..."

3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"fagoting.—The operation of welding a quantity of wrought iron in small pieces, ... In fagoting, a flat piece of iron is laid on a board and the pieces of ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry by Victor Regnault, James Curtis Booth, William L. Faber (1865)
"This steel can be used only after having been made more homogeneous by fagoting or by fusion. About 50 Ibs. of pit-coal are used for 2 cwt. of crude steel. ..."

5. The Materials of Engineering by Robert Henry Thurston (1883)
"The process of fagoting consists in binding a considerable number of bars into a ... Shafts are lengthened by piling or fagoting at the ends, and gradually ..."

6. The Materials of Engineering by Robert Henry Thurston (1883)
"The process of fagoting consists in binding a considerable number of bars into a ... Shafts are lengthened by piling or fagoting at the ends, and gradually ..."

7. Steel and Iron, for Advanced Students by Arthur H. Hiorns (1903)
"By reheating and drawing,'or by fagoting and welding or rolling, it may be made sufficiently malleable for ordinary work. The mild blister steel is used for ..."

8. A Text-book of the Materials of Construction: For Use in Technical and by Robert Henry Thurston (1890)
"The process of fagoting consists in binding a considerable number of bars into a pile or fagot, ... Shafts are lengthened by piling or fagoting at the ends ..."

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