a. [OE. bæsten: see BAST sb.1 and -EN1.] Made of bast.

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c. 1000.  Ælfric, Judg. xv. 13. Híʓ ðá hine ʓebundon mid twám bæstenum rápum.

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1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 263. The … small leav’d Lime or Linden tree … called Bast; whence the ropes are also called Basten ropes.

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1693.  W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 213. A Basten rope, funis sparteus.

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