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cres⋅set
[kres-it] 
ɪt
–noun
| 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. |
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| 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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Cresset
Cres"set\ (kr?s"s?t), n. [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) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible. --Knight.
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