Definition of "fagot"

fagot

/ˈfæɡ.ət/

noun
plural fagots
1. Alternative form of faggot
  Quotations
  What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?
  c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
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. (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.
4. (UK, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
verb
third-person singular simple present fagots, present participle fagoting, simple past and past participle fagoted
1. (transitive) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.
  Quotations
  He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, / But fagoted his notions as they fell
  1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682