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FAG'OT, n. [Gr. See Fadge. The sense is a bundle or collection, like pack.]
FAG'OT, v.t. To tie together; to bind in a bundle; to collect promiscuously.
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. 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.
A bassoon. See
Fagotto.
A person hired to take the place of
another at the muster of a company.
[Eng.] Addison. 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.] To make a fagot of] to bind together in a
fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
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