Baste vs Pommel - What's the difference?
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Baste is a related term of pommel. As nouns the difference between baste and pommel is that baste is while pommel is the upper front brow of a saddle. As a verb pommel is to pound or beat.
baste English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Verb
(bast)
To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
* {{quote-news, year=1991, date=June 14, author=J.F. Pirro, title=Custom Work, work=Chicago Reader citation
, passage=He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later. }}
Etymology 2
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Verb
(bast)
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
(by extension) To coat over something
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=April 20, author=Peter Margasak, title=Almost Famous, work=Chicago Reader citation
, passage=Ice Cold Daydream" bastes the bayou funk of the Meters in swirling psychedelia, while "Sweet Thang," a swampy blues cowritten with his dad, sounds like something from Dr. John's "Night Tripper" phase. }}
To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.
Etymology 3
Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian source. Compare (etyl) (whence
(etyl) ). Compare also
(etyl) and
(etyl)
Verb
( bast)
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
* Samuel Pepys
- One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
Anagrams
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pommel English
Alternative forms
* pummel
Noun
( en noun)
The upper front brow of a saddle.
Either of the rounded handles on a pommel horse.
The knob on the hilt of an edged weapon such as a sword.
- (Macaulay)
A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
Derived terms
* pommel horse
Holonyms
* haft, hilt
See also
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Verb
To pound or beat.
* 1851 ,
- I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own size; don’t pommel me! No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden.
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