fagot
fagot is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.(Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
- 3.A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison.
- 4.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.]
- 5.To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is 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 called?
- What is a person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison called?
- What is to make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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