Meaning & use
Baster
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A kitchen tool with a bulb and tube used to draw up and squirt juices or fat over roasting meat; also, someone who loosely stitches fabric together before final sewing.
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She used a baster to keep the turkey moist throughout the roasting.
The tailor's assistant worked as a baster, tacking pieces together before the machine stitching.
A note on using this word
Derives from two different verbs "baste" — one culinary (to moisten food while cooking) and one from sewing (to sew loosely) — that happen to share a spelling.
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2. noun
A person who loosely stitches pieces of fabric together before permanent sewing.
The baster pinned and tacked the hem before it went to the machinist.
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