A Topical Dictionary: Search for baste

Dictionary Results For "baste" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪst|-eɪst

Verb

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
To sew with wide stitches.
To beat.

fr:baste io:baste ru:baste te:baste vi:baste zh:baste

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster] Bastile

WordNet baste
n : loose temporary stitches [syn: basting, tacking]
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]

Moby Dictionary
bake , bang , barbecue , bastinado , batter , bawl out , beat , belabor ,
belt , berate , birch , blanch , boil , braise , brew , broil , brown ,
buffet , cane , chew out , clobber , club , coddle , cook , cowhide ,
cudgel , curry , cut , devil , do , do to perfection , drub , fire ,
flagellate , flail , flap , flog , fricassee , frizz , frizzle , fry ,
fustigate , give a whipping , give the stick , griddle , grill , hammer ,
heat , horsewhip , knock , knout , lace , lambaste , larrup , lash ,
lay on , maul , mill , oven-bake , pan , pan-broil , parboil , paste ,
patter , pelt , pistol-whip , poach , pommel , pound , prepare ,
prepare food , pulverize , pummel , rail , rap , rawhide , roast , saute ,
scallop , scourge , sear , shirr , simmer , sledgehammer , smite , spank ,
steam , stew , stir-fry , strap , stripe , swinge , switch , tell off ,
thrash , thresh , thump , toast , tongue-lash , trounce , truncheon ,
wallop , whale , whip , whop , wig