Found 2 items, similar to Baste.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: baste
baste
v 1: cover with liquid before cooking;
“baste a roast”
2: strike violently and repeatedly;
“She clobbered the man who
tried to attack her” [syn:
clobber,
batter]
3: sew together loosely, with large stitches;
“baste a hem”
[syn:
tack]
baste
n : loose temporary stitches [syn:
basting,
tacking]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Baste
Baste
\Baste\ (b[=a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Basted; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Basting.] [Cf. Icel. beysta to strike, powder; Sw.
basa to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. beat.]
1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
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One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some
people over on his back through the waters. --Pepys.
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2. (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or
fat on, as on meat in roasting.
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3. To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]
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Baste
\Baste\, v. t. [OE. basten, OF. bastir, F. b?tir, prob.
fr. OHG. bestan to sew, MHG. besten to bind, fr. OHG. bast
bast. See
Bast.]
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the
work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. --Shak.
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