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baste
/beɪst/
verb 5noun 1
Collocations
3ADJ.
old
VERB + BASTE
give, need
BASTE + NOUN
meat
Definitions
verb
1
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.
verb
1
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
2
To coat over something.
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.
noun
1
A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
"Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.
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Idioms & Phrases
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He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.
Wiktionary02
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.
Wiktionary03
"Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.
Wiktionary04
July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
Wiktionary05
You need to baste the meat while cooking it.
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