mazer
[ mey-zer ]
noun
a large metal drinking bowl or cup, formerly of wood.
Origin of mazer
11150–1200; Middle English: kind of wood (probably maple), Old English mæser- (in adj. mæseren, equivalent to mæser maple + -en-en2); cognate with Old Norse mǫsurr maple, Middle High German maser maple, drinking cup
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How to use mazer in a sentence
The connection between mazers and magic is not obvious, but in 1501 when John Richardson, a parish clerk, lost a mazer worth 26s.
Medival Byways | Louis F. SalzmannThe later mazers sometimes had metal straps between the rim and the foot.
This is a real curiosity, there being but few of these "mazers" now left in England.
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British Dictionary definitions for mazer
mazer
mazard or mazzard (ˈmæzəd)
/ (ˈmeɪzə) /
noun
obsolete a large hardwood drinking bowl
Origin of mazer
1C12: from Old French masere, of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse mösurr maple
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