Fag"ot (făg"ŭt) 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.
