bakehouse
(ˈbeɪkhaʊs)
Forms: 1 ? bæch{uacu}s, 4–6 bakhows(e, 5 bakkehouse, 5–6 bachous, 6 backhous(e, backehouse, (Sc. baghous), 4– bakehouse.
[OE. bæc-, from bacan to bake + h{uacu}s house.]
A building or apartment in which bread is made, having an oven for baking it. Also, one in which loaf-sugar is made.
| a 1400 Gloss. in Wright Voc. 178 Bakehouse, pistrinum. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1144 Thi bakhouse therwith all thou maist avance. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 21/2 Bakhowse, or bakynge howse. 1502 Arnold Chron. 93 Ye shal kepe noo bachous. 1524 Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 14 One Pickeringe, sometyme of the Kings bakehowse. 1606 Holland Sueton. 141 The uery jades which serued mils and backe-houses. 1624 Massinger Parl. Love iv. v, Live to be the talk Of the conduit and the bakehouse. 1697 Lond. Gaz. No. 3313/4 To be Lett, either for a Brew-house..or for a Sugar Bake House. 1862 Lond. Rev. 16 Aug. 140 The temperature of a bakehouse ranges from about 75 to upwards of 80 degrees. |