fagot
Americannoun
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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.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fagot
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French; of obscure origin
Example Sentences
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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
“Stop that, sir!” cried the girl, rushing to the rescue with a burning fagot that she had seized 73 from the fire, and shaking it full in the assailant’s face.
From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Prichard, Sarah J.
She found the donkey standing still and patient between his fagot bundles.
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
She sat down on a fagot to think it over.
From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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 MacKenzie, Compton
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