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English

Alternative forms

• oust
• east (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ost, from Old English ?st (“a kiln”), from Proto-Germanic *aistaz (“kiln”), from *ais? (“fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyd?- (“to burn; fire”). Cognate with Dutch eest (“kiln”), Middle Low German eiste (“kiln”), Latin aedes (“house; hearth”), Old English ?d (“fire; funeral pyre”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??st/

Noun

oast (plural oasts)

1. (Britain) A kiln for drying tobacco, malt and especially hops.

Derived terms

• oast house

Related terms

• hop
• hop garden
• hopping

Translations

Anagrams

• OTAs, SOTA, Sato, Sota, Taos, Tsao, as to, oats, stoa, taos, toas, tosa

Estonian

Noun

oast

1. elative singular of uba

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