noun an old shriveled woman.
2. fagot ·noun a bassoon. ·see fagotto.
3. fagot ·noun a person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
4. fagot ·vt to make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
5. 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.
6. 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.