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 →

2) (old Irish use) A baste is a bailiff, a sheriff's officer who makes people pay or arrests them. tree →

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 →
• 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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «baste» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.