| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Fagot.[Websters]
2. To have bundled, trussed, parcelled or waded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be faggoted or sheafed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be packeted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have bunched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have packed, clustered, banded, decked or trooped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have fagged or queered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have baled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have wisped, stranded or branched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have beamed, barred, stripped or slated.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb fagot.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fagot) | 1. Ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; "He fagotted the blouse for his wife".[Wordnet]. 2. Fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them.[Wordnet]. 3. Bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot.[Wordnet]. 4. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: fagoting, fagoted, fagots, fagoter, fagoters, fagotingly and fagotedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FAGOTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fagot
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A bundle of sticks, twigs or small branches of trees, used for fuel, or for raising batteries, filling ditches, and other purposes in fortification. The French use fascine, from the L. fascis, a bundle; a term now adopted in English.. | 2: [Noun] A person hired to appear at musters in a company not full and hide the deficiency.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Dream Interpretation | 1: If you dream of seeing a dense smoke ascending from a pile of fagots, it denotes that enemies are bearing down upon you, but if the fagots are burning brightly, you will escape from all unpleasant complications and enjoy great prosperity. 2: If you walk on burning fagots, you will be injured by the unwise actions of friends. If you succeed in walking on them without being burned, you will have a miraculous rise in prospects. 3: To dream of seeing fagots piled up to burn you at the stake, signifies that you are threatened with loss, but if you escape, you will enjoy a long and prosperous life. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Literature | 1: Fagot A badge worn in mediaeval times by those who had recanted their "heretical" opinions. It was designed to show what they merited, but had narrowly escaped. (See Fagots.) 2: Il y a fagots et fagots. There are divers sorts of fagots; every alike is not the same. The expression is in Molièe's Le Médecin malgré lui, where Sganarelle wants to show that his fagots are better than those of other persons; "Ay, but those fagots are not so good as my fagots." (Welsh, ffag, that which unites; Anglo-Saxon, faegan, to unite.) 3: Sentire les fagots. To be heretical; to smack of the fagots. In allusion to the custom of burning heretics by surrounding them with blazing fagots. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| MultiLingual Slang | Polish (cwel). (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (slang, chiefly US) A (male) homosexual. (references) | 2: [Noun] A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees bound together. (references) | 3: [Noun] NATO code name for the Soviet MiG-15 fighter aircraft. (references) |
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Common Expressions: fagot
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Fagot iron | Iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Fagot stitch | The stitch that ties a group of parallel threads together in fagoting. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Fagot vote | The vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Sap fagot | (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fagot
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fagot iron | Environment | Residue which may be salvage metal or metal waste; cf. home scrap, process scrap, capital scrap, return scrap, scrap vehicle; substandard or downgraded parts and scrapped parts of steel. By extension, scrap arising from the production or processing of ferrous metals. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fagot Votes | Literature | 1: "The object was to prevent the creation of fagot votes." - The Times. 2: Votes obtained by the nominal transfer of property to a person whose income was not otherwise sufficient to qualify him for being a voter. 3: The "fagot" was a bundle of property divided into small lots for the purpose stated above. Abolished. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| To make someone a fagot | MultiLingual Slang | Polish (wycwelowac, wycwelic). (references) | |
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| 9K111 Fagot | 37 | 9K111 Fagot | 37 | |
| Jean-Noël Fagot | 2 | Jean-Noël Fagot | 2 | |
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