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/bˈeɪkərz dˈəzən/ Listen

noun

Baker n.

One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

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)

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."

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

... terribly small—I am!" cried Patsy, lost in the immensity of the canyon's extent; but this is a common cry of travelers visiting Bright Angel. You might place a baker's dozen of the huge Falls of Niagara in the Grand Canyon and scarcely notice they were there. All the vast cathedrals of Europe set upon its plateau would seem like pebbles when viewed from the brink. The thing is simply incomprehensible to ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John • Edith Van Dyne

... 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