Bāk'er, n.
n. [A-S. bæcere, Icel. bakari, Sw. bagare, Dan. bagere, D. bakker, Ger. bäcker, becker.]
Sense 1. One whose occupation is to bake bread, biscuit, &c.
Sense 2. A small portable tin oven in which baking is performed. [An Americanism.]
Baker's dozen, thirteen in number, was formerly called the devil's dozen, and was the number of witches supposed to sit down at table together in their great meetings or Sabbaths. The baker, who was a very unpopular character in former times, seems to have been substituted on this account for the devil.