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This article refers to a kind of firewood; for other uses, see Faggot

A faggot or fagot is a bundle of sticks or branches, usually meant for use as firewood. It derives [1] through the Old French fagot and the Italian diminutive fagotto from the Latin Fasces ("bundle", also the origin of the word Fascism), coming into Middle English no later than 1279. It has also been used on occasion to refer more specifically (attested from 1555 in English) to wood for funeral pyres or a burning at the stake, and recanting heretics had to wear an embroidered figure of a faggot on their sleeve. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Faggot or fagot may refer to: Faggot (epithet), a derogatory term for a homosexual or effeminate male Faggot (wood), a bundle of sticks or branches Faggots (novel), a novel by Larry Kramer Faggot (unit of measurement), an archaic unit of measurement Fagot (pronounced with a silent T), the NATO reporting... Old French was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from around 1000 to 1300. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Roman fasces. ... Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the needs of the state, and seeks to forge a type of national unity, usually based on, but not limited to, ethnic, cultural, or racial attributes. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the... An Ubud cremation ceremony in 2005. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

When a faggot is wrapped in only one band or withe, instead of the traditional two, it is also referred to as a bavin.

Use in popular culture

Sylvia Plath starts her poem "Wuthering Heights" with the line "The horizons ring me like faggots", likening herself to someone being burnt at a stake, adding that if they are "[t]ouched by a match, they might warm me." Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. ...

In The Simpsons episode "The Haw-Hawed Couple", while discussing a plan to unite against Nelson Muntz, Martin Prince states: "individually we are weak, like a single twig. But as a bundle we form a mighty faggot". A dictionary definition of the word then appears on screen to clear up the audience intended confusion with the epithet faggot. Simpsons redirects here. ... The Haw-Hawed Couple is the eighth episode of the eighteenth season of The Simpsons, which originally aired on December 10, 2006. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Martin Prince, Jr. ... Look up faggot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Also, a faggot comes from the 1740's when white christians used to gather up homo sexuals and use them to start a fire used to burn blacks. Then, the white christian leader would sprinkle jews on top of the massive fire.