different between baste vs lash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st
• Homophone: based

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English basten, of uncertain etymon, possibly from Old French basser (“moisten, soak”), from bacin (“basin”).

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
2. (by extension) To coat over something.
3. To mark (sheep, etc.) with tar.

Translations

Noun

baste (plural bastes)

1. A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
   • 1876, The Odd Fellow's Companion

     "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.

Etymology 3

Perhaps from the cookery sense of baste or from some Scandinavian etymon. Compare Old Norse beysta (“to beat, thresh”) (whenceDanish børste (“to beat up”)). Compare alsoSwedish basa (“to beat with a rod, to flog”) andSwedish bösta (“to thump”).Might be related French bâton (formerly baston), which means stick (English baton comes from bâton) ; see also French bastonnade, the act of beating with a stick.

Verb

baste (third-person singular simple present bastes, present participle basting, simple past and past participle basted)

1. (archaic, slang) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
   • July 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diaries

     One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.

Translations

References

• [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811) , “Baste”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: Printed for C. Chappell, […], OCLC 23927885.

Anagrams

• Bates, Beast, Sebat, abets, bates, beast, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

baste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of bassen

Anagrams

• batse, besta

French

Noun

baste m (plural bastes)

1. ace of clubs

Noun

baste f (plural bastes)

1. basque (clothing)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bæst.

Noun

baste

1. Alternative form of bast (“bast”)

Etymology 2

From Old French bast.

Noun

baste

1. Alternative form of base (“illegitimacy”)

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?pas?te/

Noun

baste

1. spoon

Inflection

Derived terms

• deadjabaste

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Verb

baste

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of bastar
3. third-person singular imperative of bastar

Spanish

Verb

baste

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bastar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bastar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bastar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of bastar.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /læ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English lashe, lasshe, lasche (“a stroke; the flexible end of a whip”), from Proto-Germanic *laskô (“flap of fabric, strap”).
Cognate with Dutch lasch, las (“a piece; seal; joint; notch; seam”), German Low German Laske, Lask (“a flap; dag; strap”), German Lasche (“a flap; joint; strap; tongue; scarf”), Swedish lask (“scarf”), Icelandic laski (“the bottom part of a glove”).

Noun

lash (plural lashes)

1. The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.

   • I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.

2. (obsolete) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
3. A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.

4. A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
5. A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
6. In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

Translations

Verb

lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)

1. (transitive) To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.

   • We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward

2. (transitive) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
3. (transitive) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
4. (transitive) To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.

   Synonym: berate

5. (intransitive) To ply the whip; to strike.
6. (intransitive) To utter censure or sarcastic language.

   • To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice.

7. (intransitive, of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

Translations

See also

• lash out

Etymology 2

From Middle French lachier, from Old French lacier (“to lace”)

Verb

lash (third-person singular simple present lashes, present participle lashing, simple past and past participle lashed)

1. (transitive) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.

   to lash something to a spar

   lash a pack on a horse's back

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old French lasche (French lâche).

Adjective

lash (comparative more lash, superlative most lash)

1. (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
2. (obsolete) Relaxed.
3. Soft, watery, wet.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)

     Fruits being unwholesome and lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare.

4. (Ulster) excellent, wonderful

   We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!

   That Chinese (food) was lash!

5. (Britain) Drunk.

Synonyms

• (remiss): at fault, blameworthy, lax, neglectful, negligent, reprehensible
• (relaxed): See Thesaurus:carefree or Thesaurus:calm
• (soft, watery, wet): spongy, squidgy; see also Thesaurus:wet
• (excellent): See Thesaurus:excellent
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Anagrams

• Ahls, HALs, HLAs, Sahl, lahs, shal

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English laste, from Old English latost.

Adverb

lash

1. last

Adjective

lash

1. last

Related terms

• lauthest

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN