baste

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To beat vigorously; thrash.
• transitive verb To scold; berate.
• transitive verb To moisten (meat, for example) periodically with a liquid, such as melted butter or a sauce, especially while cooking.
• transitive verb To sew loosely with large running stitches so as to hold together temporarily.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To beat with a stick; thrash; cudgel.
• To moisten (meat that is being roasted or baked) with melted fat, gravy, etc., to improve the flavor or prevent burning.
• To mark (sheep) with tar.
• To sew slightly; fasten together with long stitches, as the parts of a garment, for trying on or fitting, or for convenience in handling during the process of making.
• noun In card-playing, same as beast, 7.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
• transitive verb To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
• transitive verb (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
• transitive verb Prov. Eng. To mark with tar, as sheep.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To sew with wide stitches.
• verb obsolete, slang To beat.
• verb To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
• verb by extension To coat over something

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb strike violently and repeatedly
• noun a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
• verb sew together loosely, with large stitches
• verb cover with liquid before cooking