baste

Speech parts

1. baste - Noun

2. baste - Verb

Meaning

To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

To mark with tar, as sheep.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

ketch thresh sloop steamship buffet suture flog dowse beat leather batter sewing crochet frigate tack
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Antonyms

provide serve patronage ironic wry hoarse
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Hypernyms

wash beat stitch dampen sew moisten

Phrases with the word

barbecue baste

Derivatives

basted basting

Anagrams

beast sebat tabes beats Bates esbat estab

Examples

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok. Graham Chapman

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality. Tracy Morgan

Put an Irishman on the spit, and you can always get another Irishman to baste him. Traditional Proverb

baste a roast Source: Internet

baste a hem Source: Internet

She clobbered the man who tried to attack her Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

bastardy bastardy bond bastardy proceeding basted bastee bastegh