What does "baste" mean?
Baste: (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
Additional senses
- 2.To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]
- 3.To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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