baste
A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cookingA basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
Recorded US: Dvortygirl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
» You need to baste the meat while cooking it.
Lebensfreude · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesA basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
- a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
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.
Origin
From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moistenFrom Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.