Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large drinking bowl or goblet made of metal or hard wood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Hard mottled wood, understood to be maple, formerly used in making the bowls or goblets hence called
mazers . - noun A bowl or large drinking-cup without a foot, of maple or other hard wood, and often richly decorated with carving and mounted with silver or other metal.
- noun The head; the skull or brain-box: same as
mazard , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
maple tree, or maple wood. - noun A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a
mazer bowl .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large hardwood drinking bowl
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The old English and German vessel known as a mazer was made of maple-wood, often bound and tipped with silver.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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"Májur": hence possibly our "mazer," which is popularly derived from Masarn, a maple.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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While Anna turned around to face the couple, Brie slid the cover over the battery and activated the mazer.
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The child focused on her mazer as she placed two fingers on the battery and focused her mana.
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They brought home the wooden mazer goblet for best in show.
Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010
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As she tightened the screws on the mazer, Anna read through the blueprints on the computer for a new invention that Brie drew called the de-paralyzer.
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In addition to the manalight, there was the mazer, a two-pronged electric tazer.
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They brought home the wooden mazer goblet for best in show.
Not Just For Renaissance Fairs: Mead Producers Triple In 10 Years AP 2010
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There was neither mazer-dish nor standing-cup upon the little table, at the elbow of his huge chair of state; his beads alone lay there, and it seemed as if he had been telling them in his extremity of distress.
The Monastery 2008
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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: and I kept telling them my tale till the night was far spent.
oroboros commented on the word mazer
See mazzard.
March 28, 2009