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CRESSET
Etymology
Noun
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.
Anagrams
• Secrest, resects, secrets
Proper noun
Cresset
A surname.
Anagrams
• Secrest, resects, secrets
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
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