mazer bowl

noun

A bowl or cup made from a knot of a maple tree and often decorated with silver.

Meanings

nounmazer bowl (plural mazer bowls)

plural mazer bowls

  1. historicalA bowl or cup made from a knot of a maple tree and often decorated with silver.

    […] by his side / A mighty Mazer bowle of wine was set, / As if it had to him bene sacrifide; / Wherewith all new-come guests he gratifide […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    A Loafe of bread was brought out, and delivered to the Sinne-eater over the corps, as also a Mazar-bowle of maple (Gossips bowle) full of beer, wᶜʰ he was to drinke up..

    1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 35
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