† ˈbake-meat Obs.
[f. bake = baken pa. pple.; also baken meat, baked meat.]
Pastry, a pie.
| c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 343 Withoute bake mete was never his hous. c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 55 Bakyn mete..And most daynté, come byhynde. c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 146 Almanere bakemetes þat byn good and hoot, Open hem aboue þe brym of þe coffyn cote. 1530 Palsgr. 196/2 Bake meate, uiande en paste. 1602 Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 180 The Funerall Bakt-meats Did coldly furnish forth the Marriage Tables. 1611 Bible Gen. xl. 17 All manner of bakemetes for Pharaoh. 1624 Massinger Renegado v. v, To carry This bake-meat to Vitelli. a 1700 White Devil in Dodsley O.P. VI. 312 (N.) As if a man Should know what fowl is coffin'd in a bak'd meat Afore it is cut up. |