Baste

Quick meaning: Baste is a verb meaning (transitive) To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.

Meaning

(transitive) To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
2. (transitive, by extension) To coat over something.
3. (transitive) To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
4. A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
5. (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

Example Sentences

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

July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.

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

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.

Word Forms

• bastes
• basting
• basted

Synonyms for baste

Depending on context, synonyms include clobber, batter, tacking, basting.

Antonyms for baste

Common opposites include foul.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tacking, batter, clobber, thrash, tack, gather.

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