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.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.

4. (n.) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.

5. (n.) An old shriveled woman.

6. (v. t.) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

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