Dictionary

mazer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmeɪzə/

Etymology

From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”). It has been suggested that the English word might instead come from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by a putative derivative mæseren), but the evidence for this is slight and disputed.

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The maple tree, or maple wood.
2. (archaic, countable, historical, uncountable) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
   • Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines […] 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
   • 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 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 16”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

mazer bowl · mazer wood