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Baste

//beɪst// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. transitive

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

  2. 2
    To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. transitive
  3. 3
    To beat with a stick; to cudgel. archaic, slang

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

  4. 4
    cover with liquid before cooking wordnet
  5. 5
    To coat over something. broadly, transitive

    "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."

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  1. 6
    sew together loosely, with large stitches wordnet
  2. 7
    To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar. transitive
  3. 8
    strike violently and repeatedly wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).

Etymology 4

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”).

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