fagot

American  

[fag-uht] / ˈfæg ət /

British, faggot

noun

1. a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.

2. a bundle; bunch.

3. a bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded, hammered, or rolled together at high temperature.

4. bouquet garni.

---

verb (used with object)

1. to bind or make into a fagot.

2. to ornament with fagoting.

Other Word Forms

• fagoter noun
• unfagoted adjective

Etymology

Origin of fagot

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French; of obscure origin

Example Sentences

Flanked with an enormous fagot of roses, the championship cup glittered on a table beside the court.

From Time Magazine Archive

What a help it will be to me, too, for we are going to have a fagot party, sort of a good-by to Louise Gaynor.

From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.

Having provided himself with a fagot, which he secreted beneath his bed, he supped as usual in the evening of yesterday, eating heartily at eleven o'clock, and retiring to rest by twelve.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James

Merrymind first heaped up his fagot on the hearth, to be ready against their coming at night, and next took up the golden threads to mend his fiddle.

From Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times by Browne, Frances

When the luncheon-bell rang there was not a fagot left, and a quantity of hens were clucking with impunity round her still form.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton