Bible Dictionaries
Baste

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To mark with tar, as sheep.

(2):

(v. t.) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

(3):

(v. t.) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

(4):

(v. t.) To sew loosely, or with long stitches; - usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.