faggot ((n.))

Nfld

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a stack of codfish so built as to shed rain.

Quotations

1777

We turned up yesterday's water horse and in the evening made it up into large faggots.

1832

. . . men, women, and children . . . even run, if on Sunday, out of places of worship, to collect the fish into fagots or piles.

1963

FAGGOT, n. A pile of half-dried fish.