[f. BASTE v.1]
1. Sewing with large loose stitches; quilting (obs.), tacking; also attrib., as in basting-thread.
1530. Palsgr., 196/2. Bastyng of clothe, bastiment.
1860. R. Cobbold, Pict. Chinese, 146. When the scissors have done their work of cutting the material the next process answers to our basting.
1870. Daily News, 4 April. Waistcoats without buttons, coats disfigured by basting threads.
† 2. Something basted or quilted on; a lining or trimming. Obs.
c. 1525. Skelton, Agst. Garnesche, 200. The flesche bastyng of hys cote was sewyd with slendyr thred.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse, 12 a. Blisterd with light sarcenet bastings.