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# bast

noun

«bast» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Bast is the soft fibre under the bark of some trees, such as lime, used to make rope, mats and shoes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales of country folk, the fibre a peasant weaves into a simple shoe, called a bast shoe.

### Examples

- The farmer tied the sheaves with bast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/#x1)
- He wove a mat from strips of bast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/#x2)
- The old man made a bast shoe by the fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bast» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bast.html) on Mova free.