Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cudgeling; a beating.
- noun The moistening of meat that is being roasted with its own fat, butter, etc.
- noun The gravy, melted fat, butter, etc., used in moistening roasting beef, etc.
- noun In candle-making, the process of pouring melted wax over the wicks.
- noun The act of sewing together with long, loose stitches.
- noun The stitches themselves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Loose temporary stitches.
- noun (Cookery) The act or process of moistening a roast as it is cooking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, slang A (physical) beating.
- verb Present participle of
baste .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun moistening a roast as it is cooking
- noun a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
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Examples
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Begin basting every 10 minutes with coke, and continue cooking uncovered, until the chicken is done, testing doneness by your favorite method.
Lemon Cola Butterfly Chicken Lindy 2005
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Begin basting every 10 minutes with coke, and continue cooking uncovered, until the chicken is done, testing doneness by your favorite method.
Toast: Lindy 2005
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Japanese clothing is sewed with what we call a basting stitch, but it is as durable as it could be if sewed with the smallest of stitches.
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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Indeed, not much more had been done towards making them than putting in what I believe is known as basting stitches.
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Young apprentices first learned how to sew, "basting" fabric with hand stitches to a canvas foundation.
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Another method is to cut off the bottom edge of the skirt a quarter of an inch from the turning line; apply the wrong side of the velveteen to the right side of the skirt, baste carefully close to the edge and stitch on the machine through velveteen, cloth, and lining (or facing) just inside the basting which is left in.
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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There was no "basting" required, -- only an occasional turning of the steaks and a slight transposition of them on the harpoon spit, -- so that each should have due exposure to the flame.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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And so "basting," as he said, "with a weak body and a willing mind; to do, he feared, no good work," he set forth from
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1586b John Lothrop Motley 1845
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And so "basting," as he said, "with a weak body and a willing mind; to do, he feared, no good work," he set forth from Middelburgh to rejoin Leicester at Arnheim, in order to obey, as well as he could, the
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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And so "basting," as he said, "with a weak body and a willing mind; to do, he feared, no good work," he set forth from Middelburgh to rejoin Leicester at Arnheim, in order to obey, as well as he could, the
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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