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# baste

verb (bastes, basted, basting)

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

## Everyday

1. To baste is to pour fat or juice over meat while it cooks, to keep it moist. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#m1)
2. (old Irish use) A baste is a bailiff, a sheriff's officer who makes people pay or arrests them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#m2)

### In the lessons

in the lessons, it is a cooking word; in old Irish tales, a baste is the officer who comes to take a person to gaol.

### Examples

- Dad basted the chicken with its own juice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#x1)
- She basted the roast every half hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#x2)
- The baste came to the door to take the farmer's cattle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

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