Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A baker; properly, a female baker: as, “brewesteres and bakesteres,” Piers Plowman. In Scotland commonly written
baxter : as, baxter wives.
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Examples
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When thou art the bakester, art not thou God's servant to give daily bread?
For the Master's Sake A Story of the Days of Queen Mary Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Emlyn was presented to her by the bakester, undertook for everything, and was hired by the twelvemonth, going off in high glee at the variety and diversion she expected to enjoy at the sign of the "Sheep and Shears," though clinging with much tenderness to her friends as they parted.
Under the Storm Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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There were formerly many such; thus ‘baker’ had ‘bakester’, being the female who baked: ‘brewer’ ‘brewster’; ‘sewer’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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‘brewer’, not ‘bakester’ or ‘brewster’ {176}, would be now in England applied to the woman baking or brewing.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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