- Cf. Icel. beysta to strike, powder; Sw. basa to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. beat
- To beat with a stick; to cudgel.One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
- CookeryTo sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
- To mark with tar, as sheep.Prov. Eng
