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English

Alternative forms

• bass

Etymology

From Middle English bast, from Old English bæst (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”) (compare the Swedish bast, Dutch bast, German Bast), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *b?ask-, *b?as?- (“bundle”) (compare Middle Irish basc (“necklace”), Latin fascis (“bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“tied, linked”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bæst/

Noun

bast (countable and uncountable, plural basts)

1. Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87

     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.

   • 1997: ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, page 145

     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.

Related terms

• (possibly) bastard

Translations

Anagrams

• ABTs, ATBs, ATSB, Bats, SATB, STAB, TBAs, TBSA, Tabs, bats, stab, tabs

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bast/, [b?asd?]

Noun

bast c (singular definite basten, not used in plural form)

1. bast
2. raffia

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?st/
• Hyphenation: bast
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bast. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

bast f (plural basten, diminutive bastje n)

1. A bark, as on a tree
2. (figuratively) A skin, hide

Derived terms

• boombast

Etymology 2

Verb

bast

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of bassen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of bassen

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

• bats

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /past/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bast (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *b?ask-, *b?as?- (“bundle”).

Noun

bast n (genitive singular basts, uncountable)

1. bast, raffia
2. rope made of bast

Declension

Etymology 2

From the verb at basa.

Verb

bast

1. supine of basa

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bæst, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz.

Alternative forms

• baste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bast/

Noun

bast (plural bastes)

2. A cord or cable manufactured using bast.
3. (rare) Bast; fibre made from the phloem of plants.

Descendants

• English: bast, bass
• Scots: bass

References

• “bast, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French bast (French bât).

Alternative forms

• baste, baaste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?st/

Noun

bast (uncountable)

2. Illegitimacy; the state of being illegitimate.

Derived terms

• bastard

References

• “b?st, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-03.

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bast, from Old Norse bast, from Proto-Germanic *bastaz. Cognate with English bast and German Bast.

Noun

bast n

1. bast (fibre material)

Declension

Related terms

• bastfiber
• basthud
• bastkjol
• bastkorg
• bastmatta
• lindbast

Etymology 2

From Tavringer Romani bassj, bassjt, from Romani berš, bersh. Cognate to Sanskrit ???? (var?a, “year”).

Noun

bast n

1. year (when telling age)

References

• bast in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bast in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• “bast” in Gerd Carling, Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, 2005, ?ISBN, page 73.

Anagrams

• stab

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæt?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bæt??/, [?bæ??]
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)
• Homophone: badder (in accents with flapping)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bateren, from Old French batre (“to beat”).

Verb

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

3. (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

   Synonym: thrash

   • 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):

     There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.

4. (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.

   Synonym: intoxicate

5. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Derived terms

• battered person syndrome
• battered woman syndrome

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”).

Noun

batter (countable and uncountable, plural batters)

1. (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying

2. (countable, slang) A binge, a heavy drinking session.

   Synonym: binge

3. A paste of clay or loam.

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4. (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Verb

batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)

1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

Translations

Etymology 4

bat +? -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

   Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)

2. (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

   Synonym: batsman

   Hyponyms: batswoman, batsman

   Hypernym: cricketer

   • 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Tarbet, tabret

Dutch

Verb

batter

1. first-person singular present indicative of batteren
2. imperative of batteren

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.te/

Verb

batter

1. (sports) To bat.

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

batter

1. Apocopic form of battere

Derived terms

• in un batter d'occhio

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German bittar, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Cognate with German bitter, English bitter, Dutch bitter, Icelandic bitur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bate?/, [?b?t?]

Adjective

batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)

1. bitter

Declension

See also

• (tastes) Geschmaach; batter, salzeg, sauer, séiss ^{(Category: lb:Taste)}

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) batar

Etymology

From Late Latin battere, present active infinitive of batt?, alternative form of Latin battu? (“beat, pound; fight”).

Verb

batter

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) To beat.

Derived terms

• batta-ovs
• battasenda

Scots

Noun

batter (uncountable)

1. A batter.
2. A glue; paste.