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
He had sense enough to know that the flame of the fagot does not enlighten the mind.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
"Why do you throw the fagot into the tow?" asked Michal.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
The superstition seems to be old in Germany, for the full moon is spoken of as wadel, or wedel, a fagot.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
She found the donkey standing still and patient between his fagot bundles.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
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 spark came immediately and leapt into flame and kindled the fagots piled on the hearth.
From The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
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