BASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does basting mean? 

• BASTING (noun)
  The noun BASTING has 2 senses:

1. a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

2. moistening a roast as it is cooking

  Familiarity information: BASTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baste; basting; basting stitch; tacking

Hypernyms ("basting" is a kind of...):

embroidery stitch; sewing stitch (a stitch made with thread and a threaded sewing needle through fabric or leather)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Moistening a roast as it is cooking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("basting" is a kind of...):

dampening; moistening (the act of making something slightly wet)

Holonyms ("basting" is a part of...):

roasting (cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added))

 Context examples 

Mary did look up, and she did stare at me: the ladle with which she was basting a pair of chickens roasting at the fire, did for some three minutes hang suspended in air; and for the same space of time John's knives also had rest from the polishing process: but Mary, bending again over the roast, said only— Have you, Miss? Well, for sure!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)