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Definition of Baster
1. Noun. A cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy.
2. Noun. A sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches.
3. Noun. A tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat.
Definition of Baster
1. Noun. One who bastes. ¹
2. Noun. A tool for basting meat with fat or gravy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Baster
1. one that bastes [n -S] - See also: bastes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baster
Literary usage of Baster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Suffolk Deedsby Suffolk County (Mass.), John Tyler Hassam by Suffolk County (Mass.), John Tyler Hassam (1900)
"Son Joseph baster in his full quiet and peaceable possession and Seizin and to his
... Mary baster ever had have or ought to have had of in and to that ..."
2. Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila, & Zaragoza: An Historical by Albert Frederick Calvert (1908)
"... baster and in the Gothic style, the work of one Damian Forment, an early
sixteenth-century artist. The lower reliefs, separated by slender pilasters, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer (1828)
"By indenture, dated 9th February, 1825, the defendants, V. Lucy baster and her
... Mr. and Mrs. baster put in separate answers, by which they confirmed the ..."
4. The Clothing Industry in New York by Jesse Eliphalet Pope (1905)
"baster and fuller of stay tape, (15.) lining baster, prepares for machine, (16.
... sleeve baster around edge, (23.) collar and sleeve baster, prepares for ..."
5. Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness (1878)
"Ah ! there it is again—won't confide in baster, who, when he knew of the miserable
... I know what you're after, baster; but it's a rascally plot. ..."
6. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"Johnston (1847) refers to baster as "the Dutch naturalist," from ... A third
species offish-louse was believed by baster to be a Lernaea, but the ghastly ..."
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