verb
To sew temporarily
stitch, catch, tack; see sew.
To moisten cooking meat with fat or liquid
lard, moisten, grease, drip, season; see also cook.
To beat
club, trounce, thrash; see beat 2.
See baste in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows:
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