Basted

/ˈbeɪstɪd/ verb

Past tense of baste; moistened meat with cooking liquid, or sewed with loose temporary stitches.

From baste, of unknown origin, possibly from Old Norse or Old French. The cooking and sewing senses developed separately but converge in meaning around the idea of applying something in a loose, temporary way.

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