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# bast

«bast» in Mova's school dictionary: **the soft fibre under the bark of some trees, such as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Bast is the soft fibre under the bark of some trees, such as lime, used to make rope, mats and shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales of country folk, the fibre a peasant weaves into a simple shoe, called a bast shoe.

### examples

- The farmer tied the sheaves with bast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/#x1)
- He wove a mat from strips of bast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/#x2)
- The old man made a bast shoe by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bast» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bast/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.