'Baker's salt' definitions:
Definition of 'Baker's salt'
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- Baker \Bak"er\, n. [AS. b[ae]cere. See Bake, v. t.]
- 1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A portable oven in which baking is done. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- A baker's dozen, thirteen.
- Baker foot, a distorted foot. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
- 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. [1913 Webster]