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   fagot  n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. φάκελος bundle, fagot.  Cf. Fagotto.]
   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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   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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   (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
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   A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.]
   Addison.
   
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   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  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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