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.
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thump English
Noun
( en noun)
a blow that produces a muffled sound
* Tatler
- The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
the sound of such a blow; a thud
Verb
( en verb)
To hit (someone or something) as if to make a .
* (William Shakespeare)
- These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd .
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 19, author=Jonathan Stevenson, work=BBC
, title= Leeds 1-3 Arsenal
, passage=Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.}}
To thud or pound.
To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Travels and travails
, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
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