fagots
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noun
- (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
- Burdensome baggage.
- A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
- A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.
noun
- 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.
- A fagotto, or bassoon.
- A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.