subs. (common).—A baker.
1641. H. PEACHAM, The Worth of a Peny, in ARBER’S English Garner, Vol. vi. p. 272. For a penny, you may search among the ROLLS, and withal give the MASTER good satisfaction: I mean in a Bakers basket.
c. 1762. DERRICK in FOSTER’S Goldsmith, Bk. III. ch. vi. p. 167 (5th ed.). ‘No, no,’ whispered Derrick, who knew him to be a wealthy baker from the city,’ only for a MASTER OF THE ROLLS.’
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1826. The Fancy, i. 123. Martin is the only baker who has appeared in Chancery Lane lately without insult; but they possess, generally, so little of the retiring modesty of their MASTER OF THE ROLLS, that they deserve all they catch in that way.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS. Burn-crust; doughy; dough-puncher; crumbs; fourteen-to-the-dozen.
