[kres-it] 
| a metal cup or basket often mounted on a pole or suspended from above, containing oil, pitch, a rope steeped in rosin, etc., burned as a light or beacon. |
| cres·set (krěs'ĭt) n. A metal cup, often suspended on a pole, containing burning oil or pitch and used as a torch. [Middle English, from Old French, alteration of croisuel, probably from Vulgar Latin *croceolus, small lamp.] |
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