fagots is a form of:

Fagot



Same as: pile
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.
2.
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
3.
A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
4.
An old shriveled woman.
verb
1.
(TRANSITIVE) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.
1.
A bassoon