Baker
['beɪkə] or ['bekɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone who bakes bread or cake.
(noun.) someone who bakes commercially.
Edited by Jeffrey--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
(v. i.) A portable oven in which baking is done.
Checked by Bianca
Examples
- Oh, certainly, certainly, answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of relief. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We shall not want bread now; we are bringing you the Baker, the Bakeress, and Baker's boy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why do not you article yourself then to a baker of it, I observed, and so pay some of your debts? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Certainly, sir, said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly gained property under his arm. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A low, stealthy sound came to my ears, not from the direction of Baker Street, but from the back of the very house in which we lay concealed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. Baker. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And she's out now, making it a baker's dozen. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at Baker Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mr. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at 221B, Baker Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Maternity must forth to the streets, to the herb-makers and bakers'-queues; meets there with hunger-stricken Maternity, sympathetic, exasperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But, instead of bakers'-queues, why not to Aristocrats' palaces, the root of the matter? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And he will take your daughters to be confectioners, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I'm sure you don't want me to admire butchers and bakers, and candlestick-makers, do you, mamma? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Coach-building is a trade all the same, and I think a much more useless one than that of butchers or bakers. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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