Word Meaning

baste definition and meaning

v. t. To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
v. t. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
v. t. To mark with tar, as sheep.
v. t. To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

Crossword clues for baste

- Beat soundly
- Coat in pan juices
- Coat with pan juices
- Cook in fat
- Cookery term
- Moisten (meat)
- Moisten while cooking
- Moisten while roasting
- Moisten while roasting (beats cooking)
- Only odd characters braise then moisten meat during cooking
- Pour fat over during cooking
- Sew together loosely
- Thrash
- Way of cooking