Crossword-Solution: BASTE 5 letters, 236 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Baste	v. t.	To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
Baste	v. t.	To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
Baste	v. t.	To mark with tar, as sheep.
Baste	v. t.	To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BASTE	anagram	ABEST, ABETS, BATES, BEAST, BEATS, BETAS, ESBAT, ESTAB, SEBAT, TABES

We have 236 clues for the answer “BASTE”

Clue	Answers
Moisten while roasting meat	1 answer
Sew temporarily with loose stitches	1 answer
Anoint the roast	1 answer
Apply juice, as to a turkey	1 answer
Assists in escaping, e.g.	1 answer
Bathe in butter	1 answer
Brush with liquid while roasting	1 answer
Butter a Butterball, say	1 answer
Butter the Butterball	1 answer
Butter up the turkey	1 answer
Butter up, in a way	1 answer
COAT meat with hot fat	1 answer
COAT with hot fat	1 answer
COAT with pan juices	1 answer
Child's directive	1 answer
Coat with butter, say	1 answer
Coat with juice	1 answer
Cooking or sewing term	1 answer
Cover the turkey	1 answer
Deal with a roast	1 answer
Denounce with vigor	1 answer
Do a Turkey Day duty	1 answer
Do a roaster's job	1 answer
Do a sewing or cooking job	1 answer
Do a turkey tender's task	1 answer
Employ drippings	1 answer
Help out with Thanksgiving dinner, in a way	1 answer
Instruction for some Thanksgiving cooking	1 answer
Join temporarily	1 answer
Juice the goose	1 answer
Juice, as a goose	1 answer
Keep a turkey from drying out	1 answer
Keep moist	1 answer
Keep moist in the kitchen	1 answer
Keep moist in the oven	1 answer
Keep moist, as a roast	1 answer
Keep moist, as a turkey	1 answer
Keep moist, as turkey	1 answer
Keep moist, in a way	1 answer
Keep the bird moist	1 answer
Keep the duck moist	1 answer
Keep the roast juicy	1 answer
Keep the roast moist	1 answer
Keep the turkey moist	1 answer
Keep your turkey moist	1 answer
Loosely stitch	1 answer
Make a temporary stitch	1 answer
Make makeshift stitches	1 answer
Moisten a bird	1 answer
Moisten a roast	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

EAAR

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with BASTE (5)

The felon Guene, all in his iron chains Is in that town, before the King's Palace; Those serfs have bound him, fast upon his stake, In deer-hide thongs his hands they've helpless made, With clubs and whips they trounce him well and baste: He has deserved not any better fate; In bitter grief his trial there he awaits.

The Song of Roland Anonymous 1996

Take a fat sucking mastiff whelp, flay and bowel him, stuff the body full of black and grey snails, roast a reasonable time, and baste with oil of spikenard, saffron, cinnamon, and honey, anoint with the dripping, working it in——” “Yes, Bucklaw; but in the mean while, before the sprain is cured, nay, before the whelp is roasted, you will be caught and hung.

The Bride of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott 1996

They have gotten all they can from thee, and why should they feed thee further? We feed not a dead pig, I trow, but baste him well with brine and rue.

Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor R. D. Blackmore 2006

Into this put a fowl cut up and let it act brown all over, turn when necessary and then baste it with boiling stock.

The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: Mrs. W. G. Waters 1997

The sadness of the news lieth in that there be but two in the stocks, for the others do roam the country at large." "Now by the pewter platter of Saint Dunstan," cried the Tinker, "I have a good part of a mind to baste thy hide for thine ill jest.

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 2006

Quotes with BASTE (2)

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Tracy Morgan

I always buy the smaller turkeys. On the pre-baste put pats of butter on the meat under the skin, put the skin back on, put a bunch of seasoning on the top, call it a day, put it in the oven. With a 10 - 12 pound turkey you are done in a couple of hours.

Sandra Lee

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 379 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).