Commonly in dialect form 6– bak-, backstone. [f. BAKE v. + STONE.] A flat stone or slate on which cakes are baked in the oven; a plate of iron used for the same purpose.

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1531.  Lanc. Wills (1857), I. 113. One backstoone and one spetil.

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1575.  Richmond. Wills (1853), 255. i backstone, iijd. j. yron speite … j litle broile yron.

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1818.  in E. Burt’s Lett. N. Scotl., I. 246. Poured out upon the bake-stone like a pancake.

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1864.  Mrs. Stretton, Queen of C., 78. Tell Betty to let you have a back-stone cake out of the oven.

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1869.  Blackmore, Lorna D., xxix. (D.). Here’s to the oats with the backstone on the board!

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