baste

  1. Verb.  To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
  2. Verb.  (by extension) To coat over something.
  3. Verb.  To sew with wide stitches.
  4. Verb.  (1811) To beat.

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