Faggot

Faggot derivies through the French language fagot from the Latin facus, meaning a bundle (see fascies), the English language word being attested from the 13th century in the meaning of a bundle of sticks or branches, usually bound together. It is most commonly used in reference to wood intended for use as firewood.

What fool hath added water to the sea,

Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?

(William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act II, scene III)

• In metallurgy, faggot refers to a bundle of iron pieces destined to be worked into bars by hammering or rolling at a high enough temperature to fuse them together.
• A faggot is a type of food eaten mainly in the United Kingdom.
• Faggot is a slang term used (usually pejoratively) to refer to gay men.
• A faggot is an archaic unit of measurement.

See also fag. Not to be confused with fagotto.