baxter

plural baxters · alternative bakester

1. Northern EnglandScotlandobsoleteA baker (originally, a female baker).

   It isn't the city bakers who are guilty of making underweight loaves or overcharging for them; it's the women baxters.

   2016, Toni Mount, “[December] 22nd – Offending Horsebread”, in A Year in the Life of Medieval England, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, →ISBN

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   At this day it was agreed … that in as much as the baxters [female bakers] of this city have offended in the weight of their horsebread, it is agreed for the said offence … that from henceforth the baxters of this city shall, as long as the price of beans be at 4s [shillings] or under, sell four horseloaves for 1d [penny] and that every horseloaf shall weigh 3lbs; […]

   1991 [1438], Lorraine C. Attreed, transl., The York House Books, 1461–1490, volume I, Wolfeboro Falls, N.H.: Alan Sutton for Richard III & Yorkist History Trust, →ISBN; quoted in Toni Mount, “[December] 22nd – Offending Horsebread”, in A Year in the Life of Medieval England, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, 2016, →ISBN

1. A surname originating as an occupation originating in northern England and in Scotland, a variant of Baker.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A township and rural locality in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
4. A community in Essa, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Placer County, California.
   2. An unincorporated community in Pueblo County, Colorado.
   3. An unincorporated community in Union County, Georgia.
   4. A minor city in Jasper County, Iowa.
   5. An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky.
   6. A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota.
   7. A city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota.
   8. An extinct town in New Madrid County, Missouri.
   9. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
   10. A city in Putnam County, Tennessee.
   11. An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas.
   12. An unincorporated community in Hay River, Dunn County, Wisconsin.
   13. An unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
   14. An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.