资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fagot \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.]