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(fg"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. 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.] 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. スポンサード リンク
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