Meaning

• (collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)

• Burdensome baggage.

• A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.

• A burning or smouldering piece of firewood.

• A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)

• An annoying or inconsiderate person.

• A shrewish woman.

• A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.

• A man considered weak, effeminate, timid, pathetic, emotional, non-heteronormative in some way

• A soldier numbered on the muster-roll, but not really existing.

• A faggot voter.

Meaning

• To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle.