Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who bastes or beats with a stick.
  • noun A blow with a stick or other weapon.
  • noun One who bastes meat.
  • noun One who bastes or joins the parts of a garment loosely with long stitches; also, an attachment to a sewing-machine used for basting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who bastes.
  • noun A tool for basting meat with fat or gravy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat
  • noun a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy
  • noun a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches

Etymologies

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baste +‎ -er.

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