baster









baster


noun Sewing.

  1. a person or thing that bastes.

noun

  1. a person who bastes meat or other food.
  2. 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.
n.

1520s, “one who bastes meat,” from baste (v.2); from 1726 as “heavy blow,” from baste (v.3).

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