Crossword clues for mazer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mazer \Maz"er\, n. [OE. maser, akin to OD. maser an excrescence on a maple tree, OHG. masar, G. maser spot, Icel. m["o]surr maple.] A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple. [Obs.]
Their brimful mazers to the feasting bring.
--Drayton.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The maple tree, or maple wood. 2 (context archaic or historical English) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
WordNet
n. a large hardwood drinking bowl
Wikipedia
In the Germanic tradition, a mazer is a special type of drinking vessel, properly made of maple wood, and so-called from the spotted or birdseye marking on the wood (Ger. Maser, spot, marking, especially on wood; cf. measles).
Mazer may refer to:
- Mazer (drinking vessel), a type of Germanic drinking vessel crafted from the 13th to the 16th centuries
- Mazer, a person who brews mead
- Mazer Rackham, a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series
- Bill Mazer, a famous American sportscaster
- Norma Fox Mazer, author of books for children and young adults
- Johan Mazer, Swedish musician
- Mazer (video game), a 1996 video game by American Laser Games
- Mazer Zaouia, a village in El Oued Province, Algeria
Usage examples of "mazer".
One of the servants had made the mistake of putting a mazer in front of him and pouring some wine into it.
He took the mazer from his mouth and stared into its contents with some surprise, then put it down on the table again.
He wore no armor or weapon at all, his shirt was open at the neck, and his hand held a mazer more than half-full of wine.
Out of the corner of his eye, Jim saw one of the men-at-arms pick up a metal mazer standing at the far end of the table and slip it into a sack on his back.
He turned to Cumberland, who had helped himself to a seat at the table, appropriated a mazer, poured some wine into it, and was now drinking.
There was a sharply sardonic edge to his words as he lifted his mazer of mead.
And Mazer Rackham had been the most famous man in the world for decades before that.
Jim almost ran down between the two long, lower tables, grabbed a cake from one of the few platters remaining, snarled at a servant who was carrying off the last pitcher of wine, and filled himself a mazer of the red liquid.
He did not, however, pick up his mazer, he seemed, in fact, about to turn away again from the table, when there was a scratching at the door.
The Prince poured some more wine and then water into his mazer and sat back in his chair, the large metal cup in his hand.
Prince had sat down again, picked up his mazer to drink, and was continuing to talk.
He filled his mazer with wine, ignored the water pitcher right beside him, and drank deeply.
High Table, the drinking included Angie, who had picked up her own mazer, and Geronde, who had been passed one by a servant.
Harimore referred was of course a mazer, capable of holding at least three ordinary full wine-cups of liquid.
He took a swallow from his mazer to hide his face from this perceptive, but ordinarily unemotional, man.