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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