baste
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for…To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
» You need to baste the meat while cooking it.
Meaning
5 senses(transitive)To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
heften
смета́тьsmetátʹ, смётыватьsmjótyvatʹ
sew together loosely, with large stitches
(transitive)To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
beizen, begießen
(broadly, transitive)To coat over something.
(transitive)To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
(archaic, slang)To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
Examples
4 sentencesYou need to baste the meat while cooking it.
Tom basted the turkey.
Some of the seams of the dress were held together only loosely by basting stitches, pending the final fitting.
Margaret and Baster soon had the hems basted.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”). FroLate Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).
From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
From the surface, either an indigenous cognate or borrowed from North Germanic; compare: Old Norse bausta, Icelandic beysta, Norwegian Nynorsk bøysta, Swedish bösta, bysta, Danish bøste (“to smack, thresh”), to a Proto-Germanic *baustjaną. Compare derivatives Old Norse bǫstl (“arrow”), Swedish böstel (“racket, pestle”), böste (“crowbar”). Further compare fist, German Faust (“fist”), etc, and Latin fustis (“cudgel”).
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Forms
bastes, basting, basted, bastedSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle