baste

baste is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.

[2] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

[3] To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

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