ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fagot

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈfæɡ.ət/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Fagot is a noun meaning (music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.

Meaning

(music, obsolete) A fagotto, or bassoon.

More Meanings

  1. (UK, Ireland, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
  2. (transitive) To make a fagot of (objects); to bind (objects) together in a fagot or bundle.
  3. Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).
  4. Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of iron or steel”).

Example Sentences

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

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