Fagot

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}]
    

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.
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   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.
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   3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See {Fagotto}.
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   4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster
      of a company. [Eng.] --Addison.
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   5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.]
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   {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.]
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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.
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33 Moby Thesaurus words for "fagot":
      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