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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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BAKE-, BACK-, BAK-, -BRO(A)D, -BOARD, -BUIRD, -BREID, -BREAD, BABREED, n. A kneading-board. [′bek brɔd Abd., Ayr.; -bord Gall., Rxb.; -brod Fif.; -børd Rxb.; ′bekbrid Abd., Ags.; -brɛd em. Sc.; ′bɑ:brid Rxb.]Sc. 1725 A. Ramsay T.T. Misc. (1762) 166:
My bairn has tocher of her awin: A guse, a gryce, a cock and hen, . . . A bakbread and a bannock-stane.Sc. 1825 Jam.2:
The Back-bread, in Aberd. Bakebread, is the board on which the dough is kneaded in the baking-case.Abd.2 1932:
Bake-brod is the form I know. Two boards about 2 ft. x 2 ft. [Also bake-breids (Abd.4).]Ags. 1926 Forfar Dispatch (11 Feb.) 2/5:
Jammie's mither was busy fillin the puddins wi' meal, an' Jammie, sittin on the edge i' e bakebreid, wis watchin the job.Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin (1868) xxii.:
The sign, whilk was four times as big as my mither's bake-broad.Ayr.4 1928:
Bake-brod, a bake-board.Gall. 1824 MacTaggart Gallov. Encycl. 39:
Bakerboard, a board to bake oatmeal cakes on.Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B. 47:
Bake-board (also Bake-buird and Babreed), a kneading-board.

[O.Sc. bake-brede, bake braid, bake buird, from middle of 16th cent. with variants; O.E. bord, bred, a board, table. The spellings bak, back, indicate the older pronunciation, which was retained in the compounds but lengthened in open position and changed to [e] in bacan; see P.L.D. § 29. See also Bauk.5]

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