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Webster 1913 Edition
Mazer
Maz′er
,Noun.
[OE.
maser
, akin to OD. maser
an excrescence on a maple tree, OHG. masar
, G. maser
spot, Icel. mösurr
maple.] A large drinking bowl; – originally made of maple.
[Obs.]
Their brimful
mazers
to the feasting bring. Drayton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mazer
MA'ZER
,Noun.
Definition 2025
mazer
mazer
English
Alternative forms
Noun
mazer (plural mazers)
- (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
- (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
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16: