Mazer

//ˈmeɪzə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The maple tree, or maple wood. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    a large hardwood drinking bowl wordnet
  3. 3
    A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl. archaic, countable, historical, uncountable

    "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"

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.

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