baste

• IPA^(key): /beɪst/

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• Rhymes: -eɪst
• Homophone: based

From Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).

Basting material to a pattern before cutting it.

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
   • 1991 June 14, J.F. Pirro, “Custom Work”, in Chicago Reader‎:

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

Unknown, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”).

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
2. (by extension) To coat over something.
   • 2001 April 20, Peter Margasak, “Almost Famous”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     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.

3. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.

baste (plural bastes)

1. A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
   • 1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion

     "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.

Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian source. 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 French bâton (formerly baston), which means stick (English baton comes from bâton) ; see also French bastonnade, the act of beating with a stick.

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
   • July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries

     One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Baste”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.

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baste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of bassen

• batse, besta

baste m (plural bastes)

1. ace of clubs

baste f (plural bastes)

1. basque (clothing)

From Old English bæst.

baste

1. Alternative form of bast (“bast”)

From Old French bast.

baste

1. Alternative form of base (“illegitimacy”)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpasːte/

baste

1. spoon

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• Entry 18515 in Álgu database

baste

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
3. third-person singular imperative of bastar

baste

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bastar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bastar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bastar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bastar.