baste
bayst
- n a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
- v cover with liquid before cooking
baste a roast - v strike violently and repeatedly
- v sew together loosely, with large stitches
baste a hem
- In the Pascal mansion just before Thanksgiving dinner, Mother (Genevieve Bujold) says, "I'm going to go baste the turkey and hide the kitchen knives.
- In Washington last week some 300 diners had come not to honor but to baste him.
- Settlers fleeing the privations of the Old World landed in the new one and found themselves on a fat, juicy center cut of continent, big enough to baste its coasts in two different .