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Definition of Fagot

1. Verb. Ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch. "He fagotted the blouse for his wife"

2. Noun. Offensive term for an openly homosexual man.

3. Verb. Fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them.

4. Noun. A bundle of sticks and branches bound together.

5. Verb. Bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot. "Faggot up the sticks"

Definition of Fagot

1. n. 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.

2. v. t. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

Definition of Fagot

1. Noun. A bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together, usually with two bands or withes, while a bavin has only one. ¹

2. Noun. (slang chiefly US) A (male) homosexual. ¹

3. Noun. NATO code name for the Soviet MiG-15 fighter aircraft. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fagot

1. to bind together into a bundle [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fagot

faggots fagins faglet faglets fagmaster fagmasters fagomine fagopyrin fagopyrins fagopyrism

fagoted fagoter fagoters fagoting fagotings fagots fagotti fagotto fags fagtard

fagtards fah faham faheyite

Literary usage of Fagot

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

1. Narrative of the Days of the Reformation: Chiefly from the Manuscripts of by John Foxe (1859)
"Bearing a fagot was part of the penance performed by heretics in the public ceremony of their recantation. Among the articles laid to Richard (or Robert) ..."

2. The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift (1834)
"THE fagot.8 ... They thought it was an old man's maggot; And strove, by turns, to break the fagot: In vain ; the complicated wands 1 He was visited by the ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"L?) In Shak. Tit. And. iii. 1. 69; i Hen. VI, v. 4. 56.— F. fagot, 'a fagot, a bundle of sticks;' Cot. ... [t] F. fagot means rather a bundle than a torch. ..."

4. New Ideas for Out of Doors: The Field and Forest Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1906)
"The fagot Hut is built of bundles of sticks, as shown by Fig. ... 211 shows a fagot shack finished with a beaver mat roof; when such a building is well ..."

5. Notes for Forge Shop Practice: A Course for High Schools by James Drake Littlefield (1910)
"The fagot Weld is made by placing two or more pieces of iron on top of each ... "fagot WELDING." First—Take one piece of iron f " X f" or any convenient ..."

6. Wild Animals I Have Known: And 200 Drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton (1912)
"Straight at him, now in the same horrid silence sprang Wully, and savagely tore him again and again before a deadly blow from the fagot- hook disabled him, ..."

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