Obs. rare. [f. BASE sb.2] intr. To run at, or as at, prisoner’s base.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., Prose Addit. (1612), 341. With Bacing on foote and on horsbacke, a sport lately vsed of our English youthes.
1614. Chapman, Odyss., X. 527. Yong heiffers … all so spritely given … about Bace by the dams.
