<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up faggot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> A faggot, in the meaning of "bundle", is an archaic English unit applied to bundles of certain items . Alternate spellings in Early Modern English include fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott, and faggat . </P> <P> Sometimes called a short faggot, a faggot of sticks equals a bundle of wood sticks or billets that is 3 feet (0.91 m) in length and 2 feet (0.61 m) in circumference . The measurement was standardised in ordinances by 1474 . A small short faggot was also called a nicket . A brush - faggot (sometimes shortened to brush) was a bundle of similar size made of brushwood . </P> <P> A long faggot of sticks equals a bundle larger than 3 feet (0.91 m) long . In a book on slang used at Winchester College fire - dogs were fire baskets (andirons) that could hold long faggots, and half - faggots were smaller andirons that could only hold short faggots and were later converted for use with coal . </P>

A bundle of sticks that starts with an f