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Baker   /bˈeɪkər/   Listen
noun
Baker  n.  
1.
One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
2.
A portable oven in which baking is done. (U.S.)
A baker's dozen, thirteen.
Baker foot, a distorted foot. (Obs.)
Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast.
Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.





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"Baker" Quotes from Famous Books



... surprised to find there were no medical comforts left. Our worthy captain was very much concerned, especially as about that time the potatoes had given out, the fresh meat had been consumed—even to the last poor fowl—and the so-called baker declared that he was absolutely unable to give us any decent bread. So we had a lively two months to look forward to. Personally I did not mind. Instead of getting better, as the weather got warmer I became worse. I was taken every day ...
— The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon • Jose Maria Gordon
... a former law partner of his was now in Congress, and he wished to follow. But he had to submit to a few years' delay of which the story is curious and honourable. His rivals for the representation of his own constituency were two fellow Whigs, Baker and Hardin, both of whom afterwards bore distinguished parts in the Mexican war and with both of whom he was friendly. Somewhat to his disgust at a party gathering in his own county in 1843, Baker was preferred to him. A letter of his gives a ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood
... You are starving for greasy baker's cakes, when your fathers and mothers at home are just sitting down to lovely sliced ham and brown bread and biscuit and homemade preserves and cake—and plenty of it all! Sallie Morton and Celia Snubbins, I think you are two of the most foolish ...
— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr
... Professor Henry S. Fitch for guiding my work, to Professor Rollin H. Baker for suggestions and encouragement in the early part of the study, to Mr. Robert L. Packard for certain trapping records that supplemented my own, and to Professor E. Raymond Hall for valuable suggestions. Norma L. Janes, my ...
— Home Range and Movements of the Eastern Cottontail in Kansas • Donald W. Janes
... beaten by a baker, Housemaids humbling helpless HOOK; STONE surpassed by sausage-maker, COOPER conquered ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 24, 1892 • Various


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