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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A large drinking bowl; – originally made of maple.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.
A maple cup.

Definition 2024


mazer

mazer

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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

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