FAGGOT, a bundle of sticks used for firewood. Recanted heretics wore an embroidered faggot on the arm as a symbol of the punishment they had escaped. In the 18th century the word is used of a "dummy" soldier appearing on the rolls of a regiment.
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"faggot-vote" is one artificially created by the minute split ting up of property so as to give a bare qualification for the franchise.
