[1880–85; baste1 + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: automatism, highball, interface, irredentist, quotation mark-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
baster in American English2
(ˈbeistər)
noun
1.
a person who bastes meat or other food
2.
a large glass, plastic, or metal tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a small opening at the other, to be filled with butter, drippings, etc., for basting food as it is cooking
Word origin
[1515–25; baste2 + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1515–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: accelerate, cabala, engage, fairway, unload-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)