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baste

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5 lettersPronunciation /beɪst/Part of speech verb, nounSorted abestStarts with BEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cover with liquid before cooking

Word origin

Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).

Used in a sentence

  • He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.
  • Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase.
  • "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.

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