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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fagot
    n 1: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
         faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen,
         queer, poof, poove, pouf]
    2: a bundle of sticks and branches bound together [syn: fagot,
       faggot]
    v 1: ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted
         the blouse for his wife" [syn: faggot, fagot]
    2: fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
       [syn: faggot, fagot]
    3: bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; "faggot up the
       sticks" [syn: faggot, fagot, faggot up]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fagot \fag"ot\ (f[a^]g"[u^]t) n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax,
   facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr.
   fa`kelos 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster
      of a company. [Eng.] --Addison.
      [1913 Webster]

   5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.]
      [1913 Webster]

   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.]
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fagot \Fag"ot\v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Fagoting.]
   To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle;
   also, to collect promiscuously. --Dryden.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Fagot:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
backlog, bale, bavin, bindle, bolt, bouquet, brush, brushwood, budget, bundle, deck, fardel, fasces, fascine, firewood, kindling, kindlings, log, nosegay, pack, package, packet, parcel, posy, quiver, roll, rouleau, sheaf, stovewood, truss, wood, yule clog, yule log
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