Basting

Basting
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. [1913 Webster]

One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. --Pepys. [1913 Webster]

2. (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. [1913 Webster]

3. To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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