fagot Definition

faggot¹
fagot
noun

1. cookery.
A ball or roll of chopped pork and liver mixed with breadcrumbs and herbs, and eaten fried or baked.
2. A bundle of sticks, twigs, etc, used for fuel, fascines, etc.

Derivative: faggoting
noun

A kind of embroidery in which some of the cross threads are drawn together in the middle.

Etymology: 19c in sense 1; 16c in sense 3; 13c in sense 2: from French fagot bundle of sticks.