Faggot (wood)

Faggot (wood)

A faggot or fagot is a bundle of sticks or branches, usually meant for use as firewood. It derives [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=fagot&searchmode=none] through the Old French "fagot" and the Italian diminutive "fagotto" from the Latin "Fasces" ("bundle", also the origin of the word Fascism), coming into Middle English no later than 1279. It has also been used on occasion to refer more specifically (attested from 1555 in English) to wood for funeral pyres or a burning at the stake, and recanting heretics had to wear an embroidered figure of a faggot on their sleeve.

When a faggot is wrapped in only one band or with, instead of the traditional two, it is also referred to as a bavin.


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