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old names for bakers

"William Potere" <Bpotere45@ameritech.net>
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:25:04 -0400
v106.n025.11
I subscribe to A Word a Day and this week they are listing names 
which denote one's trade but have since lost their common use.  I 
couldn't help but think that you bakers with the name BAXTER would 
like this one.

baxter (BAK-stuhr) noun

  A baker, especially a female baker.

[From Old English baecestre, feminine of baecere, from bacan (to bake).]

Other names for bakers have been backster, backmann, becker, furner 
(literally, one who is in charge of an oven), and pistor (literally, 
one who pounded the grain: a miller or a baker).

  "Than all the baxters will I ban
   That mixes bread with dust and bran."
    David Lyndsay; Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; 16th c.

Bill Potere
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