Baste
Baste (bāst) , transitive verb
[Compare Icelandic beysta to strike, powder; Swedish basa to beat with a rod: perh. akin to English beat.]
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.
2.
(Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
3.
To mark with tar, as sheep. [Provincial English]
Baste , transitive verb
[Old English basten, Old French bastir, French bâtir, prob. from Old High German bestan to sew, Middle High German besten to bind, from Old High German bast bast. See Bast.]
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. — Shakespeare