Faggot, faggots, or faggoting may refer to:

Arts and crafts

Faggoting (metalworking) Faggoting or faggoting and folding is a metalworking technique used in the smelting and forging of wrought iron, blister steel, and other steel. Faggoting is a process in which rods or bars of iron and/or steel are gathered (like a bundle of st ...

, forge welding a bundle of bars of iron and steel * Faggoting (knitting), variation of lace knitting in which every stitch is a yarn over or a decrease * Faggoting stitch,

featherstitch Featherstitch or feather stitch and Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch are embroidery techniques made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.Reader's Digest ''Complete Guide to Needlework''. The Reader' ...

, or Cretan stitch, embroidery stitch used to make decorative seams or to attach insertions *

Bassoon The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made of wood. It is known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, versatility, and virtuo ...

, called fagotto, faggot, fagott, fagot in other languages

Biology

Faggot cell Faggot cells are cells normally found in the hypergranular form of acute promyelocytic leukemia (FAB - M3). These promyelocytes (not blast cells) have numerous Auer rods in the cytoplasm which gives the appearance of a bundle of sticks, from whic ...

, cell type found in acute promyelocytic leukemia * ''

Eumeta crameri ''Eumeta crameri'' is a bagworm moth of the family Psychidae. It was described by John O. Westwood in 1854 and has worldwide distribution in tropical and subtropical habitats, including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and Puerto Rico. ...

'' or faggot worm, from the bundles of twigs it binds to itself

Branch

* faggot or fagot, branch or twig, or bundle of these ** Fascine, bundle of brushwood used in civil and military engineering **

Fasces Fasces ( ; ; a ''plurale tantum'', from the Latin word ''fascis'', meaning "bundle"; it, fascio littorio) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe (occasionally two axes) with its blade emerging. The fasces is an Italian symbo ...

, ancient symbol of an axe bound in a bundle of rods ** Faggot (unit), archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks

Food

* Faggot (food), British meatball commonly made of pork offal

Slang

* Faggot (slang), a pejorative for a gay man :* ''Faggots'' (novel), 1978 novel by Larry Kramer :*''Faggot'', a track from ''

Deadbeat Hero ''Deadbeat Hero'' is Doug Stanhope's second stand-up comedy DVD and his fifth CD. Recorded at the Comedy Underground in Seattle, Washington in 2004, originally produced by Shout Factory, and released as part of the Ad Lib Breakout Comedy Series. ...

'' by Doug Stanhope :*"Faggot", a song by

Mindless Self Indulgence Mindless Self Indulgence (often referred to as MSI) is an American electropunk band formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style which includes punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno, industrial, hip hop, and breakb ...

:*"Faggot", a song by Arca from '' Mutant'' :* Faget (song), by American band Korn

Surname

Jacob Faggot Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Isla ...

(1699–1777), Swedish scientist * Nicholas Faggot, character in the 1824 novel '' Redgauntlet'' by Sir Walter Scott

Other

* Faggot, Northumberland, uninhabited island off England * Ashen faggot, English West country Christmas tradition * Faggot voter, exploiting an electoral abuse *''The Faggot'', 1876 book by Charles Tylor