Bast Definition

băst
noun
The phloem of a plant.
American Heritage
Any type of phloem.
Webster's New World
Bast fiber.
American Heritage
Fiber obtained from phloem, used in making ropes, mats, etc.
Webster's New World

Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.

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Noun

Singular:
bast
Plural:
basts

Origin of Bast

  • From Middle English, from Old English bæst (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz (“bast, rope”) (compare the Swedish bast, Dutch bast, German Bast), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-, *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”) (compare Middle Irish basc (“necklace”), Latin fascis (“bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“tied, linked”)).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English bæst

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bast Sentence Examples

  • In a somewhat narrower sense, too, the Church of England at bast has never repudiated the conception of the Catholic Church as a divinely instituted organization for the safe-guarding and proclamation of the Christian revelation.

  • The arrangement of the conducting tissue in the stem is characteristic; a transverse section of the very young stem shows a nunber of distinct conducting strands - vascular bundles - arranged in a ring round the pith; these soon become united to form a closed ring of bast and wood, separated by a layer of formative tissue (cambium).

  • Remember, Lord, thy church to deliver it from all evil, and to perfect it in thy love, and gather it together from the four winds,' the sanctified, unto thy kingdom, which thou bast prepared for it; for thine is the power and the glory for ever.

  • The Scyths had a method of divination with sticks, and the Enarees, who claimed to be soothsayers by grant of the goddess who had afflicted them, used another method by splitting bast fibres.

  • Raffia - which has taken the place of bast - is generally used for tying, and grafting wax is only used occasionally with such plants under glass.

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Words Starting With

BBABAS

Words Ending With

TSTAST

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