What's the difference between bavin and fagot?

Bavin


Definition:

  • (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
  • (n.) Impure limestone.

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Fagot


Definition:

  • (n.) An old shriveled woman.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A bassoon. See Fagotto.
  • (n.) A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.
  • (v. t.) To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle; also, to collect promiscuously.

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  • (1) The weapons were from a consignment that included 30,000 Kalashnikov AK-47 automatic rifles, 32m rounds of ammunition, 5,000 Katyusha rockets, 400 Fagot wire-guided anti-tank missiles and some 11,000 other anti-tank weapons.

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