LekhoriLekhoriTo sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
"Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.
From Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).
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