fagot, faggot
(noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf
(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man
faggot, fagot, faggot up
(verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; “faggot up the sticks”
faggot, fagot
(verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
faggot, fagot
(verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; “He fagotted the blouse for his wife”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fagot (plural fagots)
Alternative form of faggot
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
(music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
(UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
fagot (third-person singular simple present fagots, present participle fagoting, simple past and past participle fagoted)
(transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
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Source: Wiktionary
Fag"ot n. Etym: [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. Fagotto.]
1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.
2. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: A bassoon. See Fagotto.
4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.] Addison.
5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots.
– Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]
Fag"ot v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fagoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagoting.]
Definition: To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 April 2025
(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
