baker

Etymology

From Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).

noun

  1. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
    But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
  2. A portable oven for baking.
  3. An apple suitable for baking.
    Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers. 1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129

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