baste.
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
Meaning & usage
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
Where this word comes from
Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
To coat over something.
To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
Where this word comes from
From the surface, either an indigenous cognate or borrowed from North Germanic; compare: Old Norse bausta, Icelandic beysta, Norwegian Nynorsk bøysta, Swedish bösta, bysta, Danish bøste (“to smack, thresh”), to a Proto-Germanic *baustjaną. Compare derivatives Old Norse bǫstl (“arrow”), Swedish böstel (“racket, pestle”), böste (“crowbar”). Further compare fist, German Faust (“fist”), etc, and Latin fustis (“cudgel”). 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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