Faggot
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Faggot, fagot, faggots, or faggoting may refer to:
- faggot or fagot, branchBranchA branch or tree branch is a woody structural member connected to but not part of the central trunk of a tree...
or twig, or bundle of these- FascesFascesFasces are a bundle of wooden sticks with an axe blade emerging from the center, which is an image that traditionally symbolizes summary power and jurisdiction, and/or "strength through unity"...
- Faggot (unit), archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks
- Death by burning, metonymically referred to by the faggots which fuel the fire
- Ashen faggotAshen faggotThe ashen faggot is an old English Christmas tradition from Devon and Somerset, similar to that of the Yule log and related to the wassail tradition. The wassail party passes around a bundle of ash sticks, twigs or branches—the ashen faggot—bound with green ash withies, which is then...
(or ashton fagot), Christmas wassail tradition in the West Country of England
- Fasces
- Faggot (slang), pejorative, now usually for a gay man, also having older and derived pejorative senses
- Faggot (food)Faggot (food)Faggots are a traditional dish in the UK, especially South and Mid Wales and the Midlands of England. It is made from meat off-cuts and offal, especially pork. A faggot is traditionally made from pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and...
, British meatball commonly made of pork offal - Faggots (novel)Faggots (novel)Faggots is a novel by Larry Kramer, published in 1978.It is a portrayal of 1970's New York's most visible gay community in a time before AIDS.The novel's gay culture is one of nameless sex and recreational drugs.-Reception:...
, 1978 novel by Larry Kramer - Faggoting (metalworking)Faggoting (metalworking)Faggoting or faggoting and folding is a metalworking technique used in the smelting and forging of wrought iron, damascus steel, and other steel. Faggoting is a process in which rods or bars of iron and/or steel are gathered and forge welded together. The faggot would then be drawn out lengthwise...
, forge welding a bundle of bars of iron and steel - Faggoting (knitting), variation of lace knitting in which every stitch is a yarn over or a decrease
- Faggoting stitch, featherstitchFeatherstitchFeatherstitch or feather stitch and Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch are embroidery techniques made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib...
, or Cretan stitch, embroidery stitch used to make decorative seams or to attach insertions - Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 was a jet fighter developed for the USSR by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful swept-wing jet fighters, and it achieved fame in the skies over Korea, where early in the war, it outclassed all straight-winged enemy fighters in...
, USSR jet fighter with NATO reporting name "Fagot" - 9K111 Fagot, an anti-tank guided missile
- BassoonBassoonThe bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
, variously called fagotto, faggot, fagott, fagot - Faggot cellFaggot CellFaggot cell is a term used for cells normally found in the hypergranular form of acute promyelocytic leukemia . This term is applied to these blast cells because of the presence of numerous Auer rods in the cytoplasm. The accumulation of these Auer rods gives the appearance of a bundle of sticks,...
, blast cell type found in acute promyelocytic leukemia - Faggot voterFaggot voterA faggot voter or faggot was a person who qualified to vote in an election with a restricted suffrage only by the exploitation of loopholes in the regulations. Typically, faggot voters satisfied a property qualification by holding the title to subdivisions of a large property with a single...
, hireling eligible to vote as nominal titleholder of part of a subdivided property - Eumeta crameri or faggot worm, from the bundles of twigs it binds to itself
- Jacob Faggot (1699-1777), Swedish scientist who miscalculated the pitches of the Strähle constructionSträhle constructionSträhle's construction is a geometric method for determining the lengths for a series of vibrating strings with uniform diameters and tensions to sound pitches in a specific rational tempered musical tuning. It was first published in the 1743 Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences by...
- Faggot, a song by by Mindless Self Indulgence:
- a track from Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely SexyFrankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely SexyFrankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy is the second album by New York City band Mindless Self Indulgence released in 2000. The album is the follow-up to the album Tight...
- a track from Our Pain, Your GainOur Pain, Your Gain-Bonus features:The DVD also includes the music video for "Shut Me Up" plus storyboards and a "making of" slideshow, the music video for "Straight to Video" plus a "making of" slide show, plus two fan-made videos by Bjaw Bjaw Productions and Mike Diva.-References:...
- a track from Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
- Faggot, a track from the stand-up comedy album Deadbeat HeroDeadbeat HeroDeadbeat Hero is Doug Stanhope's second stand-up comedy DVD and his fifth CD. Recorded at the Comedy Underground in Seattle, Washington in 2004, originally produced by Shout Factory, and released as part of the Ad Lib Breakout Comedy Series...
by Doug Stanhope