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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--baxter This week's theme: professions that exist mainly as surnames. baxter (BAK-stuhr) noun A baker, especially a female baker. [From Old English baecestre, feminine of baecere, from bacan (to bake).] Other names for bakers have been backster, backmann, becker, furner (literally, one who is in charge of an oven), and pistor (literally, one who pounded the grain: a miller or a baker). -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Than all the baxters will I ban That mixes bread with dust and bran." David Lyndsay; Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis; 16th c. X-Bonus Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)

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