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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)
- (obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) A baker (originally, a female baker).
2016, Toni Mount, A Year in the Life of Medieval England, →ISBN:It isn't the city bakers who are guilty of making underweight loaves or overcharging for them; it's the women baxters.
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