Baster

/ˈbeɪstər/ noun

A kitchen tool with a hollow bulb and tube used to draw up and squirt cooking liquid over meat during roasting.

From baste + -er (suffix forming agents or tools from verbs). Baste comes from uncertain origins, possibly Old Norse or Old French. The tool itself emerged as a named utensil around the 17th century.

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