cresset (plural cressets)
A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.
(coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
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Cresset
A surname.
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Source: Wiktionary
Cres"set (krs"st), n. Etym: [OF. crasset, cresset, sort of lamp or torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to E. cruse, F. creuset crucible, E. crucible.]
1. An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.
2. (Coopering)
Definition: A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. Knight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
