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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Etymology
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
"Why do you throw the fagot into the tow?" asked Michal.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
You may meet such a party coming home in the twilight: the old woman laden with a fagot of chips, and the little ones hauling a long branch behind them in her wake.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Sharp little raps and cracks came from its substance, file-firing, volley-firing, the sounds of a fagot burning briskly on a frosty night.
From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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
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
Cilia had built up a little fire of fagots to heat water.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
He commenced with the letters of the alphabet, and in his free moments he gathered wood and sold the fagots in the market-place.
From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
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