ˈsugar-ˌbaker
[Cf. Du. suikerbakker, G. zuckerbäcker.]
† 1. A confectioner. Obs.
| 1650 Comenius' Janua Ling. §408 The Sugar baker make's readie sweet-meats. |
2. A sugar-refiner.
Obs. exc. Hist.| 1688 Holme Armoury iii. xxii. (Roxb.) 281 The coat of Armes of the Sugar bakers or Refiners. 1727 De Foe Eng. Tradesm. iv. (1841) I. 26, I have seen a confectioner turn a sugar-baker. 1777 Sheridan Sch. Scand. ii. ii, Her mother was a Welsh milliner and her father a sugarbaker at Bristol. 1834 Brit. Husb. I. 426 Sugar-bakers' scum is the skimmings of the sugar during the operation of refining. 1836–7 Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales x, Mr. Gabriel Parsons..was a rich sugar-baker, and mistook rudeness for honesty. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade. |
So
ˈsugar-ˌbakehouse, a sugar-refinery;
ˈsugar-ˌbakery, (
a) a sugar-refinery; (
b) the occupation of a sugar-refiner;
ˈsugar-ˌbaking vbl. n.| 1815 Ann. Reg., Chron. 91 A *sugar bakehouse. |
| 1794 Debates U.S. Congress 5 May (1849) 635 There were only seventeen *sugar-bakeries in the United States. 1860 Thackeray Lovel i. (1861) 43 He had embarked in many businesses besides the paternal sugar-bakery. |
| 1714 Fr. Bk. of Rates 103 The said Manufacture of *Sugar-Baking and Refining in France. 1805 Forsyth Beauties Scot. III. 36 There are few manufactures here [sc. Greenock] carried on..excepting of cordage..sugar-baking, and some few others. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 48/1 In former days, when refining sugar or ‘sugar baking’ was supposed to be a mystery. |