faggot, v. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

faggot v.

[SE faggot, to tie up bundles of wood]

(UK Und.) to bind, to tie up.

1607		G. Wilkins Miseries of an Enforced Marriage Act IV: Did they not bind your worship’s knighthood by the thumbs? then faggoted you and the fool your man back to back.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Faggot the culls c. Bind the Men. [Ibid.] when we enter’d the Ken, we leapt up the Dancers and Fagotted all there, c. when we got into the House, we whipt up Stairs and Bound all the People there.
1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) II [as cit. c.1698].
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: faggot to bind Hand and Foot; as Faggot the Culls; i.e. Bind the Men.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: To faggot in the canting sense, means to bind: an allusion to the faggots made up by the woodmen, which are all bound. Faggot the culls; bind the men.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.

faggot and stall (n.) (also faggot and storm) [SE stall, to confine/storm (one’s way in)]

(UK Und.) the act of breaking into a house, tieing up the residents and robbing them.

1676		A Newgate ex-prisoner A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They truck up the dancers, which is run up stairs and bind all in the house, and some they gagg, which they call faget and storm.
1703		Hell Upon Earth 4: Some are good Artists at Faggot and Stall; which is, breaking into Peoples Houses, then Binding and Gagging all therein, Rob them.
1714		A. Smith Lives of Most Noted Highway-men, etc. I 266: The Faggot and Storm, which is, breaking into People’s Houses, and tying and gagging all whom they find.