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.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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