fagot
IPA: fˈægʌt
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.
- (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
- (UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
- Alternative form of faggot [(chiefly Britain, Ireland, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)]
verb
- (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
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Examples of "fagot" in Sentences
- They are a good match for a fagot like you.
- Is calling out a troll as a fagot an acceptable insult here?
- Gay, and (fagot) are not offensive words unless it is said in hate.
- This is another one for me to store away for your fucking fagot ass.
- I don't care what she says, I never think of her at all except then the "fagot" comment comes, then months later the phone call with E. Edwards.
- I do not know that it is a duty to disturb by missionaries the religion and peace of other countries, who may think themselves bound to extinguish by fire and fagot the heresies to which we give the name of conversions, and quote our own example for it.
- Its simplest form had probably been a kind of fagot of brushwood, -- _ramazza_, or a besom, not much unlike the rapid locomotive of witches, who were called in old times _ramassières_, from their supposed practice of riding on a _ramée_, _ramasse_, or besom.
- All the patience, all the ingenuity of the settlers was needed; but at last it succeeded, and the result was a lump of iron, reduced to a spongy state, which it was necessary to shingle and fagot, that is to say, to forge so as to expel from it the liquefied veinstone.