Obs. Also 8 bastimento. [partly ad. Sp. bastimiento ‘fortification, victuall, furniture’ (Minsheu), partly a. F. bastiment (mod. bâtiment ‘building, ship’; both f. Romanic bastire to put together, build, prepare.]
1. Military supplies, stores, provisions.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, V. iii. 133. To prouide all Bastiments, prouision, and other necessarie things.
1622. F. Markham, Bks. Warre, III. x. 5. All his prouisions … of Bastiments or other necessaries.
2. A building, a wall.
1679. Trials White & Jesuits, 61. He is a Mason, and … built a Bastyment there by direction from Sir John Warner.
3. A ship, a vessel; cf. Fr. bâtiment.
1740. Glover, Hosier’s Ghost, vii. in Pol. Ball. (1860), II. 261. Then the bastimentos never Had our foul dishonour seen, Nor the sea the sad receiver Of this gallant train had been.
