Fag"ot (?) n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. bundle, fagot. Cf. Fagotto.]
1.
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.
Shak.
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. Mus.
A bassoon. See Fagotto.
4.
A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
[Eng.]
Addison.
5.
An old shriveled woman.
[Slang, Eng.]
Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. -- Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]
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Fag"ot (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting.]
To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
Dryden.
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