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faggot ((n.)) Nfld 
n. a stack of codfish so built as to shed rain.
- 1777 (1792) 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.
- 1777 (1792) We turned up yesterday's water horse and in the evening made it up into large faggots.