Noun: fagoting fa-gu-ting
Usage: US (elsewhere: faggoting)
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: faggot)
Usage: US (elsewhere: faggoting)
- Embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches
"The delicate fagoting on the blouse added an elegant touch";
- faggoting
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: faggot)
- Ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch
"The seamstress fagoted the delicate silk blouse";
- faggot
- (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
- 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