figaten.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: faggot n.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps either a variant of faggot n. (although the vowel in the first syllable is difficult to explain), or a transmission error for that word.
1645 N. Drake (1861) 69 They made figates, of which they made a barricado. This eevning the enemy was seene to bring..figates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).