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Definition: FAGOTS

Part of Speech Definition
Verb Present Tense 1. Present 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]

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"Fagots" is a common misspelling or typo for: faggots.

Date "Fagots" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Specialty Definition: FAGOTS

Domain Definition
Literature Fagots Cakes made of the "insides" of pigs, with thyme, scraps of pork, sage onions, and other herbs, fried together in grease, and eaten with potatoes. (Greek, phago, to eat.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Definition: FAGOTS

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb Present Tense1. Present 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]

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Date "FAGOTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Specialty Definition: FAGOTS

DomainDefinition
LiteratureFagots Cakes made of the "insides" of pigs, with thyme, scraps of pork, sage onions, and other herbs, fried together in grease, and eaten with potatoes. (Greek, phago, to eat.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Common Expressions: fagot

ExpressionsDefinition
Fagot ironIron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
Fagot stitchThe stitch that ties a group of parallel threads together in fagoting. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Fagot voteThe 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

ExpressionsDomainDefinition
Fagot ironEnvironmentResidue 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 VotesLiterature1: "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 fagotMultiLingual SlangPolish (wycwelowac, wycwelic). (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: fagot

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9K111 Fagot37   9K111 Fagot37
Jean-Noël Fagot2   Jean-Noël Fagot2

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