Wast vs Bast - What's the difference?
wast | bast |
(archaic)
* 1600 , William Shakespeare, As You Like It , Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),
* 1611 , The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version , (first & last usages),
* 1850 , , The Blessed Damozel , lines 97-99
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 wast
is (archaic).wast
English
Verb
- "Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."
- Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"
- Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast , and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."
- Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!
- Yea, one wast thou with me
- That once of old.
References
* *See also
* am * are * is * art * be * being * been * beest * was * were * wert * vastbast
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.
