noun Sewing.
- a person or thing that bastes.
noun
- a person who bastes meat or other food.
- a large glass, plastic, or metal tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a small opening at the other, to be filled with butter, drippings, etc., for basting food as it is cooking.
1520s, “one who bastes meat,” from baste (v.2); from 1726 as “heavy blow,” from baste (v.3).