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Dictionary - fagot - 6 entries.
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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. |
| | 2. | Noun
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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. |
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A bassoon. See Fagotto. |
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A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. |
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An old shriveled woman. |
| | 6. | v. t.
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To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously. |
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