Crossword clues for baster
baster
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who baste#English. 2 A tool for basting meat with fat or gravy.
WordNet
n. a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy
a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches [syn: tacker]
a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat
Wikipedia
The Basters (also known as Baasters, Rehobothers or Rehoboth Basters) are a Namibian ethnic group descended from European settlers and indigenous African women from the Dutch Cape Colony. Since the second half of the 19th century, they have lived in central Namibia, in and around the town of Rehoboth. In ancestral history, they are similar to the groups classified as Coloured or Griqua people in South Africa.
The name Baster is derived from bastaard, the Dutch word for "bastard" (or "crossbreed"). While some people consider this term demeaning, the Basters use it as a 'proud name,' claiming their ancestry and history. Their 6th Kaptein is Joseph McNab, elected in 1999; he has no official status under the Namibian constitution. The Chief's Council of Rehoboth was replaced with a local town council under the new government.
The current numbers of Basters remain unclear (figures between 20,000 and 40,000 are estimated.) The Basters are concerned that their unique minority heritage will be lost in modern Namibia. The government and society are dominated by the ethnic Owambo people, who constitute nearly half of the population.
Baster is a band which from Réunion founded in 1983. They perform sega, maloya and reggae. Their music has been described as electric maloya. They are one of the most popular maloya groups and perform a poetic and lyrical form of the genre.
They formed at Basse-Terre, which was formerly a village near Saint-Pierre but, due to urban sprawl, it is now part of Saint-Pierre.
Their songs are defined by their texts in Réunion Creole written and sung by Thierry Gauliris, and their addition of reggae elements set with strong guitar solos.
In 2002, he went to the Tuff Gong studio of Bob Marley and did reggae versions of his greatest hits.
The Basters are an ethnic group in Namibia.
Baster may also refer to:
- Baster, a kitchen utensil. See basting (cooking)
- Baster (band), French musical group
Usage examples of "baster".
One dissolved or diluted the medicine in water and filled the rubber bulb of the baster with it.
I put on my own suit, because his anyway were too long, and came across the tube of the baster, still there in an inner breast pocket.
I understand right, that Harley Ostermeyer picked up the tube of the baster and gave it to you?
I went upstairs and put the baster tube into an envelope and then into a jiffy bag brought from the office for the purpose and addressed it to Phil Urquhart.
Day, if not for her obsession with the boy and his turkey baster father.
We sucked the semen into a turkey baster and my partner inseminated me.
Sandy Rapczewicz had the oven door open and was standing over the turkey with baster in one hand and spoon in the other, looking irresolute.
Captain Baster, in the strong facetious vein, enlivened the walk with his delightful humor.
They walked briskly down to The Plough, the one inn of Little Deeping, where, as usual, Captain Baster was staying, and went in through the front door which stood open.
They went into the drawing-room in a body and found Captain Baster still talking to their mother, in the middle, indeed, of a long story illustrating his prowess in a game of polo, on two three-hundred-guinea and one three-hundred-and-fifty-guinea ponies.
She had but to return to the polite world from which the loss of her husband and her straightened circumstances had removed her, to find herself a popular woman with a host of friends in the exalted circles Captain Baster burned to adorn.
The fine high spirits of Captain Baster were somewhat dashed by his failure to find his keys and open his portmanteau, since he would be unable to ravish Mrs.
Heartened by his dinner and two extra whiskies and sodas, Captain Baster set out for Colet House at a brisk pace.
She tried not to hope that he would find marriage with Captain Baster incompatible with them.
Captain Baster to propose before she had taken counsel with her brother.