baster

Other forms of baster

plural

basters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about baster

What does baster mean?

baster means "a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in baster?

baster has 2 syllables: ba-ster. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for baster?

Close synonyms include tacker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baster a common word?

baster is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.