·noun An old shriveled woman.
II. Fagot ·noun A bassoon.
·see Fagotto.
III. Fagot ·noun A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
IV. Fagot ·vt To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
V. Fagot ·noun 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.
VI. Fagot ·noun 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.