Noun

(en-noun)

An action in which something is baked

I'm going to do some baking this afternoon.

* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Harriet Jacobs (AKA Linda Brent), title=Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings , assisted by her two oldest children. }}

The way in which something is baked

* {{quote-book, year=1871, author=Ledyard Bill, title=Minnesota; Its Character and Climate, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=How often have we risen in the morning, after spending the night in this manner, with a feeling akin to that which we fancy would come from being knocked in the head with a sack of meal, then gently stewed, and all out of pure fraternal regard to supply any deficiencies in our original bakings . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Captain R. F. Scott, title=Scott's Last Expedition Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Clissold's work of cooking has fallen on Hooper and Lashly, and it is satisfactory to find that the various dishes and bread bakings maintain their excellence. }}

Noun

The business of managing a bank.

The occupation of managing or working in a bank.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

(aviation) A horizontal turn.

* 1825 , Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce