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fagot
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What does fagot mean?
noun
- Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).
- Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
verb
- To make a fagot of (objects); to bind (objects) together in a fagot or bundle.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
- (obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
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Its bark is resinous and a fagot of dry sticks makes a torch that is equal to a pineknot.
The convict calls himself a fagot.—And finally, what name do malefactors give to their prison?
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All is unholy to it that is not simple; fain, likewise, would it play with the fire—of the fagot and stake.
In Italy, at the beginning of the fourteenth century, the Church thought it necessary to deal with questions of this sort by rack and fagot.
It is equally possible, for the matter of that, that a future society may reestablish legal torture with the whole apparatus of rack and fagot.