a. [OE. bæsten: see BAST sb.1 and -EN1.] Made of bast.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Judg. xv. 13. Híʓ ðá hine ʓebundon mid twám bæstenum rápum.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 263. The … small leav’d Lime or Linden tree … called Bast; whence the ropes are also called Basten ropes.
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 213. A Basten rope, funis sparteus.
