faggot n also flacket. DC flacket n (1818, 1840).
   1818 CHAPPELL 128 From thenceforward [the cod] are kept constantly turned during the day, and piled up in small heaps, called flackets, at night. 1987 FIZZARD 133 'In the evening they put it in faggots--about half a dozen fish in a pile--for the night.'

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