baste
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baste¹
- /beɪst/
Sounds like based · Rhymes with -eɪst
Where it comes from
Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).
verb bastes · basting · basted
- 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.
baste²
- /beɪst/
Sounds like based · Rhymes with -eɪst
Where it comes from
From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
verb bastes · basting · basted
- To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- 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.
- To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
noun bastes
- 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.
baste³
- /beɪst/
Sounds like based · Rhymes with -eɪst
Where it comes from
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”).
Might be related to French bâton (“stick”) (formerly baston); English baton comes from bâton; see also French bastonnade (“the act of beating with a stick”).
verb bastes · basting · basted
- 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.
