fagot

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).

   “What fool hath added water to the sea, / Or brought a fagot to bright-burning Troy?”

   “"Give the red man Goss!" she told him; / "Drive him westward from the forest, […] / Chase him west, with fire and fagot, / Give him Goss! for he's no business, / Business none, to be an Injun."”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).
3. (obsolete)A fagotto, or bassoon.
4. (Ireland, UK, obsolete)A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .

verb

1. (transitive)To make a fagot of (objects); to bind (objects) together in a fagot or bundle.

   “He vvas too vvarm on Picking-vvork to dvvell, / But Faggotted his Notions as they fell, / And if they Rhim'd and Rattl'd all vvas vvell.”