Master of the Rolls

English

Etymology

The sense of a baker is a pun alluding to bread rolls.

Noun

Master of the Rolls (plural Masters of the Rolls)

  1. The President of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, and Head of Civil Justice; a judge who is second in seniority in England and Wales only to the Lord Chief Justice.
  2. (UK, slang, obsolete, humorous) A baker.
    • 1828, George Cruikshank, The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth, page 144:
      What do I care for lawyers! Aʼnt I a baker and Master of the Rolls myself: […]

References
  • (baker): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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