piebaking

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A form of pie baking — The act of baking pies.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounpiebaking (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of pie baking.

    Most strawberries for instance were packed in 30-lb. containers and in sugar for the ice cream and piebaking trade.

    1943, Quick Frozen Foods and the Locker Plant - Volume 6, page 18
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    However, Potatoes of this grade should find a ready sale in the South, where they may be used for such purposes as piebaking and canning.

    1916, Market Growers Journal - Volumes 18-19, page 210

    Because the consumer is not aware of the shift to a smaller can, it would seem that the industry might advise her of the need to use more than 1 can in her piebaking.

    1959, Trienah Meyers, How You Can Size Up Consumers You'll Never See, page 3
adjectivepiebaking (comparative more piebaking, superlative most piebaking)

comparative more piebaking · superlative most piebaking

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pie-baking.

    No one has to be an ancient to recall a piebaking mother or grandmother rolling a little cornucopia of brown paper and sticking it into the center of a fruit pie just before it went in the oven.

    1974, Marcia Ray, Collectible Ceramics
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Chicago

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