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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
baste
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A: Some cooks say that basting does nothing to ensure moist meat; others swear by it.
▪ Be sure to baste on both sides.
▪ Grill poussins under moderately high heat for 15-20 minutes on each side, basting with the marinade.
▪ Not invited, but told, and basted roundly with curses and abuse by the playmaster.
▪ Q: Do I need to baste?
▪ Return to the oven for 40 minutes, basting occasionally.
▪ The cooking period may require full attention, as in stirring, basting, or turning, or it may not.
▪ The turkey basted itself in a paper bag in the oven.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.

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

  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 \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
baste

"sew together loosely," c.1400, from Old French bastir "build, construct, sew up (a garment), baste, make, prepare, arrange" (12c., Modern French bâtir "to build"), probably from Frankish or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *bastjan "join together with bast" (source also of Old High German besten; see bast).

baste

"to soak in gravy, moisten," late 14c., of unknown origin, possibly from Old French basser "to moisten, soak," from bassin "basin" (see basin). Related: Basted; basting.

baste

"beat, thrash," 1530s, perhaps from the cookery sense of baste (v.2) or from some Scandinavian source (such as Swedish basa "to beat, flog," bösta "to thump") akin to Old Norse beysta "to beat," and related to Old English beatan (see beat (v.)).

Wiktionary
baste

Etymology 1 vb. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. Etymology 2

vb. 1 To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 2 (context by extension English) To coat over something Etymology 3

vb. (context 1811 English) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

WordNet
baste
  1. v. 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]

Wikipedia
Baste

Baste, also known as Basta, is a village in the Palghar district of Maharashtra, India. It is located in the Vikramgad taluka.

Usage examples of "baste".

For the meat eaters, a number of giant baloneys were set to roasting whole on spits, to be turned and attentively basted with a grape-jelly glaze by once-quarrelsome kitchen staff while others made croutons from old bread, bustling about while the spinach thawed, singing along with the radio, which someone had mercifully re-tuned to a rock and roll station.

Again, she had assessed Occula as a girl of exceptional style, with far more than the kind of short-term basting appeal of a beauty like Meris, and she did not mean to let her attraction burn up and blaze out like a fire-festival bonfire.

The prospect of an afternoon spent with a warm, good-humored admirer, a sound basting or two and a nice, fat lygol to take home afterwards, was by no means unpleasant.

Well, that explained a whole basting lot, as Occula would no doubt have remarked.

They boast and shout and sing and drink themselves silly and naturally they generally get to basting the girls as well.

And despiteor perhaps because ofhis ready opportunities for pleasure elsewhere, these had set up in him a relentless craving which her subsequent renown and exaltation had only served to inflame, for they had made him suppose the chance of actually basting her again to be gone for ever.

Maia, for her part, was more than glad of a friend who, unlike the shearnas, was not for ever concerned with men, basting and the material advantages to be gained therefrom.

Now go and fetch the saiyett the men she asked you for, and basting quickly, too!

Pour a little boiling water into the pan and bake slowly, basting as required.

Add a little boiling water and bake in a very hot oven, basting as required.

Dot with butter and bake in a moderate oven for forty minutes, basting freely.

Dot the fish with butter, cover with buttered paper, and bake for forty-five minutes, basting as required.

Lay on thin slices of salt pork and bake, basting frequently with the fat.

Clean a large bluefish, put into a baking-pan, pour over it a cupful of boiling salted water, cover and bake for an hour, basting frequently.

Bake in a pan with a cupful of hot water and a tablespoonful of butter, basting frequently.