In a tailor shop, I mean to join two fabrics with loose, temporary stitches. In a Thanksgiving kitchen, I mean to bathe a roasting turkey in hot pan drippings so its skin browns evenly. What five-letter word am I?
Baste
'Baste' means both loose sewing in tailoring and moistening roasting meat with juices in culinary arts.
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