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Definition of Bastes
1. baste [v] - See also: baste
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastes
Literary usage of Bastes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1873)
"... and a broder, for a bygger stocke, to open the stocke, whan it is clonen and
pared : and also good tough claye and mosse, and abo bastes or ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1896)
"You can get another chap to do my bastes to-night; will you?> And the master says
to Isaac, <If you don't do your bastes overtime, if you 're too high and ..."
3. Bulletin by Montana Historical Society, Henry E. Legler Regional Branch, Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago West Side Historical Society (1916)
"She cuts the waist-lining to measure, using the three- piece loose-lining or the
French-fitted lining; bastes the parts of the lining together with seams of ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"'Twas when the rain fell steady an' the Ark was pitched an' ready, That Noah got
his orders for to take the bastes below; He dragged them all together by ..."
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