Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAG'GOT, n. [W. fagod; Gr. φακελλος, connected with W. fag, that which unites or meets; fagiad, a gathering round a point; Scot. faik, to fold, to grasp; fake, in seamen's language, a coil; allied to Sax. fægan, gefegan, to unite. See Fadge. The sense is a bundle or collection, like pack.]

1. A bundle of sticks, twigs or small branches of trees, used for fuel, or for raising batteries, filling ditches, and other purposes in fortification. The French use fascine, from the L. fascis, a bundle; a term now adopted in English.
2. A person hired to appear at musters in a company not full and hide the deficiency. Encyc.