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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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(Bakehous,) Baikhous, n. Also: bak-hus; -hous; baick-, beakhouse. [ME. bakhouse, -howse (c 1440), bakke-, back(e)house, and bakehouse (a 1400).] A bakehouse, bakery.(a) 14.. Acts I. 32/2.
Na man ma hafe ma servandis in his bakhouse than four 1450 Exch. R. V. 376.]
[Patricio Purdy … et Johanni Bakhouse, pistoribus domini regis 1527 Stirling B. Rec. I. 29.
That na baicht [= batch] be tane out of the bakhows on to the tyme that [etc.] 1566 Prot. Bk. T. Johnstoun 102.
[In] the Bakhous, thre burdis, ane peile 1576 Prot. Bk. MS. 178 b.
The brewhus dur with ane band, … The bak hus with ane vne 1597 Dundee B. Laws 48.
Anent backhousses going on the Sabboth day(b) 1519 Reg. Episc. Aberd. II. 177.
The baikhous witht … ij bakin stulis and ane ald girdyle 1551 Reg. Cupar A. II. 69.
For the constructioun … of our … kychyin, baikhious and brewhous 1577 St. A. Baxter Bks. 25.
That ilk master of baikhous pay the quarter pament 1635 Haddington Corr. 300.
In the baikhous and brewhous, ane leid, … ane kneding troch 1684 Glamis Bk. of Record 39.
A baick house … of my fathers building 1698 Edinb. Test. LXXX. 271.
The good … in the baik house and bout house —attrib. 1527 Treas. Acc. V. 326.
For making of the baikhous dur 1696 Edinb. Test. LXXX. 152.
Ane baick house board(c) 1619 Dundee B. Laws 347.
The saidis prentises ar appointit … to serve in the beackhous 1699 Ib. 353.
Those that ar joyne[d] with us in our beakhouses Ib.
All the masters of beakhouses