\Fag"ot\n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax, facis, torch, perh.
orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr. ??????? bundle, fagot. Cf.
{Fagotto}.]
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. --Shak.
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.] --Addison.
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.]

\Fag"ot\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fagoted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fagoting}.]
To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle;
also, to collect promiscuously. --Dryden.