[f. BAKER + -Y: see -ERY.]
1. Baker’s work; the craft or business of the baker.
1545. Joye, Exp. Dan., xii. (R.). Daniel saw his feet to be made and bakt but of britel bakkery.
1765. Smollett, Trav., 186. The butchery and the bakery which they farm at so much a year.
2. A place for making bread; the whole establishment of a baker.
1857. Eliza Acton, Eng. Bread-Bk., 40. Converting the small bakeries, conducted on the old system, into mechanical bakeries.
1872. Yeats, Techn. Hist. Comm., 116. Public bakeries were established in 1276.
