fagot

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.
2. n. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.
3. v. To bind into a fagot; bundle.
4. v. To decorate with fagoting.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel or for other purposes, as in fortifications; a fascine; as a definite amount of wood, a bundle 3 feet long and 24 inches round. See cut under fascine.
2. n. The punishment of burning alive, as for heresy; the stake: from the use of fagots of wood in making the fire.
3. n. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel, ready to be welded and drawn out into bars; as a definite amount of such metal, 120 pounds avoirdupois.
4. n. A person formerly hired to take the place of another at the muster of a military company, or to hide deficiency in its number when it was not full.
5. n. A badge worn in medieval times by those who had recanted their heretical opinions. It was designed to show what they had merited but narrowly escaped.
6. n. A heap of fishes piled up for the night on the drying-flakes; a bundle of fish, about 100, taken from the flakes and put under shelter at night.
7. To tie together; bind in a fagot or bundle; collect and bind together.
8. Specifically In metallurgy, to cut (bars of metal, usually of iron or steel) into pieces of suitable length, which are then made up into “fagots,” “piles,” or bundles, and, after reheating, welded together, and rolled or drawn out under the hammer into bars. The object of this process is, in some cases, to secure uniformity of texture; in other cases just the opposite. Also pile.
9. To ornament (a fabric) by drawing out a number of threads and tying together in the middle a series of the cross-threads. See fagoting.

Wiktionary

1. n. A bundle of sticks, twigs or small tree branches bound together, usually with two bands or withes, while a bavin has only one.
2. n. slang A (male) homosexual.
3. n. NATO code name for the Soviet MiG-15 fighter aircraft.
4. v. transitive To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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. n. 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. n. (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
4. n. engraving A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
5. n. Slang, Eng. An old shriveled woman.
6. v. To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
2. v. bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
3. v. ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
4. n. a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
5. v. fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them