Middle English Dictionary Entry
fagot n.
Entry Info
| Forms | fagot n. Also faget, faket. |
| Etymology | OF fagot. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A bundle of firewood or kindling; (b) firewood tied in bundles; (c) a bundle used for fascines or other purposes; (d) fagot staf, a pole for carrying faggots.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1312) Will Durham in Sur.Soc.218 : iiijc fagotis xviij d.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)248a/a : Þornes..beþ y bounde..to fakettis and y brende it ouenes or in forneys.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.449 : Codrus took a pore manis cloþinge and a burþen of fagettes on his nekke.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.157/530 : For j faggett of woode, to hete with þe yrons.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)35/24 : Scho was ledd and bun by a stake and fagotes of thornes and oþer wode laid aboute hir.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1395 : Fagotes of fyrtree.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1962 : With a faget on myn hond, for to settyn on a fyre!
- (1450-2) Doc.in HMC Rep.5 App.520b : For 2 fagetys of brome.
- (1474-76) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.31537 : Paied..for..Sowdre for gotters..; item, for fagottes for to hete their Irens, j d.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)46/113 : In þi necke þis fagot þou take and þis fyre bere in þinne honde.
- a1525(?1474) Cov.Leet Bk.399 : His ffagott of wodde of an ob. schal-be iij schaftmond and a halfe a-bout and a yerde of lenthe.
- (1480-82) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.32149 : Paid for a fagotte to the plommer, ob.
b
- (1377-1399) Oath Bk.Colchester10 : Faget j c., jd. Talwode j m., ijd.
- (1417) J.Dernell in Nrf.Archaeol.15136 : For a lode fagot price xxd.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.3706 : This cruel Cirus..Leet make in haste off faget a gret fir.
- (1467) Acc.Howard in RC 57388 : My mastyr paid fore a quartrone of fagot xj d.
c
- (1447-8) Shillingford88/15 : The dore of the said towre..is so stondynge open and fakettes, hors, and dong, and myche other ungodely thyng..broghte theryn.
- a1450(1408) *Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)63b : Also þey þat haueþ wel swymmyg hors, þey mowe [make] hem-selue scheues or fagettis or knycches or swathes..of drye reedis.
- c1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)285 : Every man to woode shal goon, Fagotis to hewe and faste bynde, And fille the Dikes faste anoon.
d
- (1323) Coroner R.in Sharpe Cal.Coron.R.Lond.71 : Fagotstaf.
- (1324-5) Coroner R.in Sharpe Cal.Coron.R.Lond.107 : Fagatstaf.