Hast vs Bast - What's the difference?
hast | bast |
Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
* , chapter=19
, title= * 1919, (Ronald Firbank), (Valmouth) , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
* 1997 : ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 145
As a verb hast
is archaic second-person singular of have lang=en.As a noun bast is
fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.hast
English
Verb
(head)- Thou hast lovely eyes!
- Thou hast gone from me.
Usage notes
* Hast'' (along with its variant ''havest'') is the original second-person singular present tense of ''to have'' and is now largely archaic, having been superseded by ''have''. It is still however found in poetry and older works, being used both as a main verb and an auxiliary verb, and is occasionally still heard in certain regional dialects, especially in the north of England. It is perhaps most familiar to modern ears through its extensive use in the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 and the Authorised Version of the Bible, and in other liturgical texts derived from, or influenced by, them. It corresponds to the familiar second-person singular present tense of ''to have in some other European languages.Synonyms
* havestAnagrams
* English irregular second-person singular forms ----bast
English
(wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
- I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast .
- He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.
