baste

About 0.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
2. verb To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
3. verb To coat over something.
4. verb To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
5. noun A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
6. verb To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

Similar words

tacking batter clobber thrash tack gather besew stitch patch backstitch

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Word family

basted baster basters bastes basting