different between baster vs easter

English

Etymology

baste +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?be?st?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?be?st?/
• Rhymes: -e?st?(?)

Noun

baster (plural basters)

1. One who bastes.
2. A tool for basting meat with fat or gravy.
   • 2009, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots

     Hmm, yeah, but we didn’t have a turkey baster.

Translations

Anagrams

• Be star, Sterba, Tarbes, abrest, barest, bestar, breast, rebats, tabers

Middle French

Verb

baster

1. to put a packsaddle on

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: bâter

References

• “bâter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?.st?/

Adjective

easter (comparative more easter, superlative most easter)

1. (now regional) Eastern. [from 8th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 57:

     In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond.

Derived terms

• easterly
• Easter Ross

Related terms

• wester

References

• “easter” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• Teresa, aretes, arsete, arêtes, asteer, earset, eaters, ratees, reseat, saeter, seater, staree, teares, teaser