fag·ot n.
 1. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.
 2. 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.
 3. Mus. A bassoon. See Fagotto.
 4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company. [Eng.]
 5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.]
 Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots.
 Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]

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