BASTING

basting

(noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking

baste, basting, basting stitch, tacking

(noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

basting (plural bastings)

The act by which a food item is basted.

(archaic) A (physical) beating.

Verb

basting

present participle of baste

Anagrams

• tangibs

Source: Wiktionary

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BASTE

Baste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Basted; p. pr. & vb. n. Basting.] Etym: [Cf. Icel. beysta to strike, powder; Sw. basa to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. beat.]

1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.

2. (Cookery)

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

3. To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

Baste, v. t. Etym: [OE. basten, OF. bastir, F. b, prob. fr. OHG. bestan to sew, MHG. besten to bind, fr. OHG. bast bast. See Bast.]

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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