Definition of "mazer"

mazer

/ˈmeɪzə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural mazers
1. (obsolete) The maple tree, or maple wood.
2. (archaic or historical) A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
  Quotations
  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
  1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 16”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […]
  Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines […]
  1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia