Faggot (unit)

Alternate spellings in Early Modern English include fagate, faget, fagett, faggott, fagot, fagatt, fagott, ffagott, and faggat.

Sometimes called a short faggot, a faggot of sticks equals a bundle of wood sticks or billets that is 3 feet (90 cm) in length and 2 feet (60 cm) in circumference.

[2] A brush-faggot (sometimes shortened to brush) was a bundle of similar size made of brushwood.

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.

[7][8][9] A faggot was also a unit of weight used to measure iron or steel rods or bars totaling 120 pounds (54 kg).