basting

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪstɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -eɪstɪŋ

basting (plural bastings)

1. The act by which a food item is basted.

   Use repeated bastings to prevent the chicken from drying out.

2. (archaic) A (physical) beating.

basting

1. present participle of baste

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Basting”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.

• tangibs

• bastaing

From Old French bastir (“to construct”).

basting m (plural bastings)

1. A joist used to carry other planks of wood.

• “basting” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).