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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

To baste is to pour fat or juice over meat while it cooks, to keep it moist. tree →
(old Irish use) A baste is a bailiff, a sheriff's officer who makes people pay or arrests them. tree →

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 →
She basted the roast every half hour. tree →
The baste came to the door to take the farmer's cattle. tree →

Note

nothing for maths.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «baste» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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