Sometimes called a
short faggot, a faggot of sticks equals a bundle of wood sticks or
billets that is in
length and in
circumference. A small short faggot was also called a nicket. A brush-faggot (sometimes shortened to brush) was a bundle of similar size made of
brushwood. A
long faggot of sticks equals a bundle larger than long. In a book on slang used at
Winchester College fire-dogs were
fire basket (
andirons) that could hold long faggots, and half-faggots were smaller andirons that could only hold short faggots and were later converted for use with
coal. A long faggot was also called a kidd faggot,
kid,
kide, or
kidde being Middle English for firewood in bundles. A
fascine (or bavin A faggot was also a unit of
weight used to measure
iron or
steel rods or bars totaling . ==See also==