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Baster
Baster
See also: baster
English
Alternative forms
Noun
Baster (plural Basters)
- A member of an ethnic group comprising the descendants of Cape Colony Dutch and indigenous African women. They live largely in Namibia, in and around the town of Rehoboth.
Synonyms
baster
baster
See also: Baster
English
A baster being used to drip juices on a turkey.
Noun
baster (plural basters)
- One who bastes.
- 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.
- 2009, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots
Translations
one who bastes
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tool for basting
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Anagrams
Middle French
Verb
baster
- 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.
Conjugation of baster
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | baster | avoir basté | |||||
| gerund | en bastant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | bastant | ||||||
| past participle | basté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | baste | bastes | baste | bastons | bastez | bastent |
| imperfect | bastois, bastoys | bastois, bastoys | bastoit, bastoyt | bastions, bastyons | bastiez, bastyez | bastoient, bastoyent | |
| past historic | basta | bastas | basta | bastasmes | bastastes | basterent | |
| future | basterai, basteray | basteras | bastera | basterons | basterez | basteront | |
| conditional | basterois, basteroys | basterois, basteroys | basteroit, basteroyt | basterions, basteryons | basteriez, basteryez | basteroient, basteroyent | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | baste | bastes | baste | bastons | bastez | bastent |
| imperfect | bastasse | bastasses | bastast | bastassions | bastassiez | bastassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | baste | — | bastons | bastez | — | ||
Descendants
- French: bâter
References
- “bâter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).