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Baker's dozen   /bˈeɪkərz dˈəzən/   Listen
noun
Baker  n.  
1.
One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
2.
A portable oven in which baking is done. (U.S.)
A baker's dozen, thirteen.
Baker foot, a distorted foot. (Obs.)
Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused by the irritating properties of yeast.
Baker's salt, the subcarbonate of ammonia, sometimes used instead of soda, in making bread.


Dozen  n.  (pl. dozen (before another noun), dozens)  
1.
A collection of twelve objects; a tale or set of twelve; with or without of before the substantive which follows. "Some six or seven dozen of Scots." "A dozen of shirts to your back." "A dozen sons." "Half a dozen friends."
2.
An indefinite small number.
A baker's dozen, thirteen; called also a long dozen.





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"Baker's dozen" Quotes from Famous Books



... Is the heart less hungry because it has been starved? Just look at your history. When nuns have relapsed from other-worldliness to this-worldliness how have they been? I'll tell you. They have been just a round baker's dozen times worse than they would have been if they had never undertaken to cheat Nature. Look at the thing fairly. I don't expect to dodge any blame that I deserve, yet I do want all the palliating circumstances duly noted. Many months ...
— The Darrow Enigma • Melvin L. Severy
... could be wasted. Once past the deserted station at the Fort there would come eight miles of twisting and turning and struggling up-grade, and every pound of steam would be needed to pull even this baker's dozen of heavily laden cars now ...
— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King
... Uncle Jack, whimsically. "I haven't the advantage of being a girl with a brother and a baker's dozen of beaux in bell buttons and gray. I'm only an old fossil of a 'cit,' with a scamp of a nephew and that limited conception of the delights of West Point which one can derive from running up there every time that versatile ...
— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King
... away to the dinner—by the powers, we'll duck the first man that says a loud word for the remainder of the day. Come, Father Corrigan, and carve the goose, or the geese, for us—for, by my sannies, I bleeve there's a baker's dozen of them; but we've plenty of Latin for them, and your Reverence and Father James here understands that langidge, any how—larned enough ...
— The Ned M'Keown Stories - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton
... Margaret marry, old marster sold out and leave de county. Us move to Mr. Wade Rawls' and work for him from 1876 to Jerry's death. Is I told you dat I marry Jerry? Well, I picked out Jerry Walker from a baker's dozen of boys, hot footin' it 'bout mammy's door step, and us never had a cross word all our lives. Us had nine chillun. Us moved 'round from pillar to post, always needy but always happy. Seem lak us never could ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration


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