Pronunciation
- IPA: /bæst/
bast
- Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants and used for matting and cord.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
- I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.
- 1997: ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, page 145
- He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87
- (possibly) bastard
- German: Bast
- Portuguese: entrecasca
- Russian: лы́ко
Bast
Noun
- Alternative spelling of Bastet
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