fagot
Americannoun
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fagots
plural
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a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
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a bundle; bunch.
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a bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded, hammered, or rolled together at high temperature.
verb (used with object)
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to bind or make into a fagot.
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to ornament with fagoting.
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Origin of fagot
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French; of obscure origin
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Flanked with an enormous fagot of roses, the championship cup glittered on a table beside the court.
From Time Magazine Archive
Little did Martin dream that it was the last fagot she possessed laid upon the altar of his self-esteem.
From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee
"The stream of light which descended from the beginning" was propagated by fagot to fagot, until Christendom was filled with the devouring fires of faith.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
When she had done so the serpent twined itself round the fagot like a rope, and said, “Now lift it on to your head, but when you reach home, lay your burden down gently.”
From Santal Folk Tales by A. Campbell
For by her own desire, Elizabeth was buried in the same grave with her sister Mary, that sister whose very name seems only to bring to mind hatred and persecution, the stake and the fagot.
From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Rose Georgina Kingsley
Dimly I saw troops hurling great bundles of fagots on to the muck and mud in the bottom of the track, trying to build a bridge for our tanks to cross.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hysterical peasants and zealous priests pointed to a pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above all, he is to most other movie actors what a young oak is to a pile of fagots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cilia had built up a little fire of fagots to heat water.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
With it she fastens the fagots together, bearing them on her back.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth
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