Baste

1. v. t. To sew loosely, or with long stitches; — usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
2. v. t. To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
3. v. t. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
4. v. t. To mark with tar, as sheep.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.