baxter

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English

Etymology

From Middle English bakestere, bakestre, bakistre, from Old English bæcestre, feminine of bæcere (baker). See baker, as bake +‎ -ster.

Noun

baxter (plural baxters)

  1. (obsolete, UK, Scotland) A baker; originally, a female baker.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for baxter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)