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
Science had shown him a Deity existing at the head of a fagot of immutable laws.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
She sat down on a fagot to think it over.
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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 Compton MacKenzie
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Above all, he is to most other movie actors what a young oak is to a pile of fagots.
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
Cilia had built up a little fire of fagots to heat water.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The light of the blazing fagots before her played on her beaded moccasins and showed off to advantage her richly embroidered skirt.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth
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