FAGOTING

fagoting, faggoting

(noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

fagoting (uncountable)

A decoration of a fabric achieved by removing threads and tying others into bunches.

The joining of hemmed edges of fabric with crisscrossed threads.

Verb

fagoting

present participle of fagot

Source: Wiktionary


FAGOT

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



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REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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