mazer

[ mey-zer ]

noun

1. a large metal drinking bowl or cup, formerly of wood.

mazer

/ ˈmeɪzə; ˈmæzəd /

noun

1. obsolete.
   a large hardwood drinking bowl

Word History and Origins

Origin of mazer¹

1150–1200; Middle English: kind of wood (probably maple), Old English mæser- (in adj. mæseren, equivalent to mæser maple + -en -en ² ); cognate with Old Norse mǫsurr maple, Middle High German maser maple, drinking cup

Word History and Origins

Origin of mazer¹

C12: from Old French masere, of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse mösurr maple

Example Sentences

The connection between mazers and magic is not obvious, but in 1501 when John Richardson, a parish clerk, lost a mazer worth 26s.

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The Mazer continued in use to the seventeenth century, when it was still a favourite with the humbler classes.

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Now drink we, quod he, of this mazer and quaff ye this mead which is not indeed parcel of my body but my soul's bodiment.

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I give and bequeath unto my sister Elizabeth Wellyfed 40, three goblets without a cover, a mazer, and a nut.

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Spenser speaks in his Shepheard's Calendar of "a mazer yrought of the maple wood."

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