fagot vote

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fagot vote - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  fagot \fag"ot\ (f[a^]g"[u^]t) n. [F., prob. aug. of L. fax,
     facis, torch, perh. orig., a bundle of sticks; cf. Gr.
     fa`kelos 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.
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     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.
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     3. (Mus.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
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     4. A person hired to take the place of another at the muster
        of a company. [Eng.] --Addison.
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     5. An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.]
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     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.]
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