An oven for baking.

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1812.  [He] threw it in the bake-oven, which had just before been heated to bake bread.—Mass. Spy, Sept. 2.

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1827.  A “New Bake-House” in Worcester, Mass., is advertised in the same newspaper, Sept. 19.

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1883.  Harper’s Magazine. (N.E.D.)

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