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Noun: fagoting  fa-gu-ting
Usage: US (elsewhere: faggoting)
  1. Embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches
    "The delicate fagoting on the blouse added an elegant touch";
    - faggoting
Verb: fagot  fa-gut
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: faggot)
  1. Ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
    "The seamstress fagoted the delicate silk blouse";
    - faggot
     
  2. (metallurgy) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them
    "The blacksmith fagoted the iron rods before heating them in the forge";
    - faggot
     
  3. Bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot
    "fagot up the sticks";
    - faggot, faggot up [archaic]

Derived forms: fagotings

Type of: bind, broider [archaic], embroider, embroidery, fancywork, tie down, tie up, truss

Encyclopedia: Fagoting

Fagot, Paul