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Definition of "fagot" [fag•ot]

  • A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together. (noun)
  • A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars. (noun)
  • To bind into a fagot; bundle. (verb-transitive)
  • To decorate with fagoting. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fagot" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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."
  • "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."