basting machine (bas tingmashen")

A sewing-machine used for basting together pieces of fabrics, to make a continuous piece for IMG:content-1741.png:[blocks in formation] OF. bast on, F. bâton = Sp. bast on = Pg. bastão = It. bastone, Baston. reach the edge of the field: it is generally considered in English heraldry a mark of illegitimacy. [Still used in this shared static 2. In arch., a segmental molding used especially in the bases of columns; a torus.-3. A servant of the warden of the Fleet, who attended the king's courts as an officer, carrying a red truncheon. It was his duty to take to ward such prisoners as had been committed by the court, and also to attend those suffered to go at large by license. Hence, go out of prison by bast on was to go at large in the custody of servant of the warden of Fleet prison. [London,