Definitions for mazer

mazer ma·zer

Spelling: [mey-zer]
IPA: /ˈmeɪ zər/

Mazer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in mazer (aemrz).

Definitions for mazer

noun

  1. a large metal drinking bowl or cup, formerly of wood.

Origin of mazer

1150-1200; Middle English: kind of wood (probably maple), Old English mæser- (in adj. mæseren, equivalent to mæser maple + -en -en2); cognate with Old Norse

Examples for mazer

Now drink we, quod he, of this mazer and quaff ye this mead which is not indeed parcel of my body but my soul's bodiment.

The mazer continued in use to the seventeenth century, when it was still a favourite with the humbler classes.

Ancient drinking vessels of wood such as the mazer, a drinking bowl much like a punch bowl, were decorated with silver bands.

That the original word, mazer, should have been retained, is not to be wondered at.

mazer, a large drinking bowl (Skeat); trees seems to mean merely wood.

It is known that when the mazer bowl was made of silver, the old name was retained.

The connection between mazers and magic is not obvious, but in 1501 when John Richardson, a parish clerk, lost a mazer worth 26s.

The relic she treasures above all, however, is a gold "mazer," inherited by Mr. Walford through a long line of ancestors.

Meantime Alan, one may believe, had consigned the mazer to a safe place, and joined in the congratulations of Johanne's friends.

Therewith he poured forth into the mazer, and handed it to Birdalone, and lo!

Word Value for mazer
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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