Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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BAXTER, n. [′bɑkstər]
1. A baker.Sc. 1737 A. Ramsay Sc. Proverbs 76:
Ye breed of the Baxters, ye loo your Neighbour's Browst better than your ain Batch.Sc. [1818] Scott H. Midlothian (1830) vii. Note:
But there are warrands out against a great many other persons who had fled, particularly against one William White, a journeyman baxter, who, by the evidence, appears to have been at the beginning of the mob.Nai. 1716 Thanes of Cawdor in Spalding Club (1856) 417; Slg. 1732 Ruinous Houses in Slg. in Stirling Arch. Soc. (1920) 78; Hdg. 1902 J. Lumsden Toorle, etc. 236; Rnf. 1871 D. Gilmour The “Pen” Folk (1873) 51:
All with the meaning of baker.Abd. 1991 David Ogston in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 119:
Banisher o aa want,
Christ the baxter.Ayr. 1810 Sir A. Boswell Poet. Works (1871) 51:
Rich Whigs and Cookies smoke upon the board, The best that Keir the baxter can afford.Slk. a.1835 Hogg Tales, etc. (1837) V. 236:
Two strong men . . . come in, bearing an immense roasted side of an ox on a wooden server, like a baxter's board.
2. Comb.: baxter-chap, a baker's lad.Fif. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 114:
Hurlbarrows, fillet to their taps Wi' saxpence laifs, and cakes, and baps, Were haurlit down by baxter-chaps.
