fagot

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: faggotfagfairynancepansyqueenqueerpoofpoovepouffaggot up

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. offensive term for an openly homosexual manSynonyms: faggotfagfairynancepansyqueenqueerpoofpoovepouf
  2. a bundle of sticks and branches bound togetherSynonyms: faggot

Verb (3)

  1. ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch“He fagotted the blouse for his wife”Synonyms: faggot
  2. fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld themSynonyms: faggot
  3. bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot“faggot up the sticks”Synonyms: faggotfaggot up
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

fagot \fag"ot\ (f[a^]g"[u^]t) n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. fa`kelos 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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3.(Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto. [1913 Webster]

4.A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] --Addison. [1913 Webster]

5.An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] [1913 Webster]

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.] [1913 Webster]

Fagot \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. [1913 Webster]
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