mazer

English

Alternative forms

• maser

Etymology

From Middle English mazer, maser, from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by derivative mæseren), from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”). Reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from the same Germanic source.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmeɪzə/
• Rhymes: -eɪzə(r)

Noun

mazer (plural mazers)

1. (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
2. (archaic or historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16:

     Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me

Derived terms

• mazer bowl