Middle English Dictionary Entry
bā̆kere n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bā̆kere n. Also backere. |
| Etymology | OE bæcere, beside the more common bæcestre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. baxter.
1.
(a) A baker; a member of the craft of bakers or of one of the two divisions [broun-bakeres, whit ~] of the craft; (b) in names.
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 LSSerm.(Jes-O 29)35 : Alle þeos false chapmen..Bakares [Clg: bachares] and breowares..Boþe heo makeþ feble heore bred and heore ale.
- c1300 SLeg.Cuth.(LdMisc 108)73 : To þe bachouse he ȝeode him-seolf, ase þe bakares hadden i-bake.
- ?c1335 Heil seint Michel (Hrl 913)p.157 : Hail be ȝe bakers wiþ ȝur louis smale Of white bred and of blake..To þe fair pillori, ich rede, ȝe tak hede.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.87 : He gronde at þe querne wiþ a bakere for huyre.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4324 : Looke of Egipte the kyng daun Pharao, His bakere and his butiller also.
- (a1399) Oath Bk.Colchester11 : Bakerys.
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.64 : Euerych bakere of þe town þat makeþ bred to sale shal to þe kynge of custome ij s. by þe ȝere, and to þe clerke of þe town a peny.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)31 : Of corn comeþ flour By þe buntynge of þe bakere.
- (1423) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.136/186 : We presente and endite all the Bakers, Brewers..for gretely defectif.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.40.17 : Al maner metis that ben made with bakers craft.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)20 : Baker or baxter: Pistor, Pannicius.
- (1441) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)258 : White bakers shall bake no hors brede..broune bakers shall bake whete brede as it comyth grounde fro the mylle withoute ony bultyng of the same. Also the seid broune bakers shall bake hors brede of clene benys and pesyn, And also brede that is called housholdersbrede.
- (1448) Doc.Faversham in Archaeol.Cant.20220 : To do execusyon of the pyllyry, kukyng stole, brekyng of bakers ovens.
- (a1450) Rec.Norwich 2316 : That alle maner bakeris baken iiij louys for a peny.
- a1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)623 : Of þo baker now speke y wylle..Of a lunden buschelle he shalle bake xx louys.
b
- (1177) in Fransson Surn.61 : Will. le Bakere.
- (1246) Assize R.Lan.in LCRS 4734 : Robert Bakere.
- (1262) Close R.Hen.III109 : Robertus le Backere.
- (1269) Close R.Hen.III167 : Rogerus le Baker.
- (1287) Pleas Crown in BGAS 22172 : Margery Baker and Felicia de Lacy.
- (1296-7) Acc.Cornw.in RHS ser.3.6672 : De Waltero le bakere.
- (1332) Sub.R.Nrf.in Nrf.Archaeol.16193 : Johanne le Bakere.
- (1391) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.5289/24 : Pro Willelmo Fyssher, baker.