Don't forget to finish running up the facing; I've Basted it carefully, and would do it if my head didn't ache so, I really can't hold it up any longer, answered Pris, who had worked like a disinterested bee, while Kitty had flown about like a distracted butterfly.
"Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories"
Louisa M. Alcott
But when Mrs. Mowbray returns I suspect that it will be my turn to be Basted:-n'importe-I am sure I have done no more than my father would have thought right.
"The Vicar of Wrexhill"
Mrs [Frances] Trollope
Home from work in the evening, after a hurried supper, she shut herself up in the parlor, and cut and snipped and measured and Basted and stitched as if there were nothing else in the world to do.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin