But old French expression "Fils de bast" meen "Child of Packsaddle Woman" -- bast is material for packsaddle!. From Wordnik.com. [Squaw no more] Reference
This portion is known as the bast, and hence these fibres are known as "bast fibres". From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
Hashysh paste is politely termed bast, and those who sell it basty (i.e. cheerfulness). From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference
The Hashysh paste is politely termed bast, and those who sell it basty (i.e. cheerfulness). From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Arabia] Reference
Derives from 'bast' or 'bat', alternative names for the kind of pack-saddle used in the baggagetrains that followed an army on the move. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
On the floor was a sleeping mat fashioned from bast. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
From what part of the plant are bast fibers obtained?. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Jute and hemp belong to the lower order of bast fibers. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
Men and women often wear sandals of hide or plaited bast. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
"You don't have to be such a bast —" Then her eyes widened. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
"And then I am going back to find the bast —" He cut off the word in time. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
"He'll get it, the black-hearted bast -" Red-faced, Flint glanced up at Perian. From Wordnik.com. [Flint the King]
'Half-bast elefen o'glock,' growled Darco accusingly, 'ant look at the preakfast-dable.'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Jute, flax, China grass and hemp are common fibres which are derived from the bast of the plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
It would be nice if facebook worked out some of the slowness and issues from the bast few days …. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook Merges ‘Highlights’ Back Into Your News Feed] Reference
The weight of moisture in the wet fibre, immediately it is drawn from the bast, averages 56 per cent. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
And it was longer than usual, too, before a face peered down, and the tip-tap of the bast slippers began. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
“I was going to enjoin you, should you have answered me truthfully, to abandon us to the bast-to them.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
‘Well, at least he might pay for your bast shoes; you go out hunting with him; you must use a pair a day.’. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
There is an important point of difference between seed fibres and bast fibres, that is in the degree of purity. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
Besides the linen, there is a great number of bast fibers fit for textile purposes, some superior, some inferior. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
The linen fiber consists of the bast cells of certain species of flax grown in Europe, Africa, and the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
The ground should be kept even and mellow during the summer, and the vines neatly tied to the trellis with bast or straw. From Wordnik.com. [The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines] Reference
Tilia, each of these names bearing reference to the bast or inner bark of the tree, which is used in the North for cordage. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The most dangerous tendency of enthusiasm in this occurs in an ode on the birth of a prince of the bast, rant, and burlesque. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
And as I moved to the door, I would hear the tip-tap of his bast slippers restoring him, up the stairs, to his dream of boots. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
They saw rings strung on bast which the hero owned, seven hundred in all; they took them off and put, them on again, all but one. From Wordnik.com. [The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13] Reference
The next day he filled his pouch with corn, put a bundle of bast-twine in his boat, and once more set off to the giant's dwelling. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian] Reference
Another, composed of skeleton leaves and fibres and bast, is placed between two growing leaves pegged together with bits of stick. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
In the extraction of the fibre the natives work in couples; one man strips the bast, whilst his companion draws it under the knife. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
His hair was bound round, workman fashion, with a wisp of lime-tree bast, and his round face seemed rounder and pleasanter than ever. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
“You see, I took him first thing at dawn,” Tikhon continued, spreading out his flat feet with outturned toes in their bast shoes. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
An old peasant whom Prince Andrew in his childhood had often seen at the gate was sitting on a green garden seat, plaiting a bast shoe. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
He had on new bast-shoes and leggings; a thick string, wound three times round his figure, carefully held together his neat black smock. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
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