| 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., 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., A bassoon. See Fagotto., A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company., An old shriveled woman., To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. |