English
Alternative spellings
maser
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman #Anglo-Norman|mazer, Old French mazre �a kind of maple wood�, from a Germanic source cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser "spot"), Icelandic mösurr "maple".
Pronunciation
IPA|/�meɪz�/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪz�(r)|-eɪz�(r)
Noun
en-noun
- obsolete The maple tree, or maple wood.
- context|archaic|or|historical A large drinking bowl made from such wood.
#*1885: 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 � Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16
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