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
- (UK, Ireland, obsolete) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company .
- (transitive) To make a fagot of (objects); to bind (objects) together in a fagot or bundle.
- Alternative spelling of faggot (“bundle of sticks”).
- 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."
Word Forms
- fagots
- fagoting
- fagoted
Related Words
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