baste

baste has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• v. t.. To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
• v. t.. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
• v. t.. To mark with tar, as sheep.
• v. t.. To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
• n.. a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
• v.. cover with liquid before cooking; "baste a roast"
• v.. sew together loosely, with large stitches; "baste a hem"
• v.. strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"