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.
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- noun One who
bastes . - noun A
tool for bastingmeat withfat orgravy .
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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Examples
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I would have figured you’d have enough for both of you, but if a baster is what you need – then who is anyone to question your alternative lifestyle?
Think Progress » Limbaugh Attacks ThinkProgress’ “Extreme” Alito Coverage 2005
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I think someone just told him what a "baster" is used for.
Sunday Sweets: Let's Talk Turkey Jen 2008
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You can use a spoon to spoon the juices or sauce over the meat or you can use a baster which is a bit like a syringe or bulb.
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Fit the pastry tip/syringe/baster into a hole and pipe about 2 teaspoons jam into doughnut.
Miranda Levenstein: Jewish Girl Guilt Sufganiyot Miranda Levenstein 2011
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Fill a pastry bag fitted with a #4 tip or a pastry syringe or turkey baster with jam.
Miranda Levenstein: Jewish Girl Guilt Sufganiyot Miranda Levenstein 2011
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Fit the pastry tip/syringe/baster into a hole and pipe about 2 teaspoons jam into doughnut.
Miranda Levenstein: Jewish Girl Guilt Sufganiyot Miranda Levenstein 2011
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Fit the pastry tip/syringe/baster into a hole and pipe about 2 teaspoons jam into doughnut.
Miranda Levenstein: Jewish Girl Guilt Sufganiyot Miranda Levenstein 2011
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Separate from the slapping lesbians, a battle began to rage between the lesbians who were pagans versus the lesbians who were Christians, and then the lesbians who wanted to have “baster babies” factioned off, too.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Fill a pastry bag fitted with a #4 tip or a pastry syringe or turkey baster with jam.
Miranda Levenstein: Jewish Girl Guilt Sufganiyot Miranda Levenstein 2011
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Fill a pastry bag fitted with a #4 tip or a pastry syringe or turkey baster with jam.
Miranda Levenstein: Jewish Girl Guilt Sufganiyot Miranda Levenstein 2011
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