Mazer
WordNet
noun
(1) A large hardwood drinking bowl
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From 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".
Noun
- The maple tree, or maple wood.
- 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