baster

¹

[ bey-ster ]

noun

, Sewing.

1. a person or thing that bastes. baste.

baster

²

[ bey-ster ]

noun

1. a person who bastes baste meat or other food.
2. a large glass, plastic, or metal tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a small opening at the other, to be filled with butter, drippings, etc., for basting baste basting food as it is cooking.

Word History and Origins

Origin of baster¹

First recorded in 1880–85; baste ¹ + -er ¹

Origin of baster²

First recorded in 1515–25; baste ² + -er ¹

Example Sentences

He sucked fluid out of the infant’s airway with a turkey baster or the like from the parents’ kitchen, and the boy started breathing.

From Seattle Times

He’ll give something useful, like an oven mitt or turkey baster.

From Seattle Times

Instead, she procured a turkey baster and an arrangement with Quentin, “a baby drag queen who performs under the name Miss Super Extra Deluxe Pandemonium” and hosts drag bat mitzvahs.

From Washington Post

Four days a week, she arrives at Moon Flower around 6 a.m. to make gummies, a bestseller, using a turkey baster to fill molds.

From Washington Post

If they get too wet, their little roots will rot, Bird said, so water sparingly only when the moss is dry, using an eyedropper or turkey baster to get the water close to the roots.

From Los Angeles Times