Definition of fagot

• 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.
• 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.
• n. - A bassoon. See Fagotto.
• n. - A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
• n. - An old shriveled woman.
• v. t. - To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.