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What's The Definition Of Fagot?

\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.]
\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.