Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
FAGOT
I. noun or faggot
Etymology: Middle English fagot, from Anglo-French
Date: 14th century
bundle : as, a bundle of sticks, a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or hammering at high temperature,
II. transitive verb or faggot
Date: circa 1598
to make a fagot of ; bind together into a bundle