baste Definition

• Baste ((v. t.))

  To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

• Baste ((v. t.))

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

• Baste ((v. t.))

  To mark with tar, as sheep.

• Baste ((v. t.))

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

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