mazer

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 300 words | Copyright

mazer (hist.) hard (? maple) wood XII; bowl or goblet, orig. of mazer wood XIV. — OF. masere (of Gmc. orig.; in modF. madré veined, variegated, like maple-wood), perh. reinforced from MDu. maeser maple = OHG. masar (G. maser) excrescence on a tree, † maple, ON. mǫsurr maple.

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