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baste

verb
/beɪst/

Etymology

Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whence Danish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare also Swedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) and Swedish bösta (“to thump”). Might be related to French bâton (“stick”) (formerly baston); English baton comes from bâton; see also French bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”).

  1. derived from bastir — “build, construct, sew up (a garment)”

Definitions

  1. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering…

    To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.

    • He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.

  2. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

  3. To coat over something.

    • Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.

    2. A basting

      A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.

      • "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.

    3. To beat with a stick

      To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

      • July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.

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Derived

baster

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for baste. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA