/ · 1894 Brewer’s · N · Nimble as a Cat on a hot Bakestone
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In a great hurry to get away. The bake-stone in the north is a large stone on which bread and oat-cakes are baked.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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