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
basting (plural bastings)
The act by which a food item is basted.
(archaic) A (physical) beating.
basting
present participle of baste
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Source: Wiktionary
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
21 June 2025
(noun) the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); “asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture”
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