Fagot

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An old shriveled woman.

II. Fagot ·noun A bassoon. ·see Fagotto.

III. Fagot ·noun A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.

IV. Fagot ·vt To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

V. Fagot ·noun 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.

VI. Fagot ·noun 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.

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