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# baste

«baste» in Mova's school dictionary: **to pour fat or juice over meat while it cooks, to keep it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (bastes, basted, basting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To baste is to pour fat or juice over meat while it cooks, to keep it moist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#m1)

2) (old Irish use) A baste is a bailiff, a sheriff's officer who makes people pay or arrests them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#m2)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#x1)
- She basted the roast every half hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#x2)
- The baste came to the door to take the farmer's cattle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baste/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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