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
Having provided himself with a fagot, which he secreted beneath his bed, he supped as usual in the evening of yesterday, eating heartily at eleven o'clock, and retiring to rest by twelve.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
In Somersetshire, and some other counties, the burning of an ashen fagot is a regular Christmas custom, and it is supposed that misfortune will certainly fall upon the house where it is not duly fulfilled.
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
The fagot was unloosed, and the sticks could now be broken one by one.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
The fruit is as follows: one bushel of golden, honeyed oranges,—oh! the glory of all oranges are those of this island,—the same quantity of chaimitos and mameys, and a huge fagot of sugar-cane.
From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe
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
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
Dame Maria lighted a fire with fagots upon the hearth; she put water in the cauldron, and hung it on the hook above the fire.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
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