baste

[Baste]

When cooks baste food, they brush or drizzle a savory liquid on it as it's cooking. If you baste your Thanksgiving turkey while it bakes, it will stay moist and tender.

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To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

Noun
loose temporary stitches

Verb
cover with liquid before cooking; "baste a roast"

Verb
sew together loosely, with large stitches; "baste a hem"

Verb
strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"


v. t.
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

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

v. t.
To mark with tar, as sheep.

v. t.
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.


Baste

Baste , 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.
One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
2. (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

Baste

Baste, v. t. [OE. basten, OF. bastir, F. btir, 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.

To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

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Usage Examples

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

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