cresting
Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.
Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.
a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.
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How to use cresting in a sentence
Will it be totally sanitized and full of glass-box condos or is the wave cresting and the tide about to run out?
When my siblings and I would see the planes cresting the mountains, we would line up, hoping they would let us board.
Supermodel Alek Wek’s Bittersweet Return Home—to a Free South Sudan | Alek Wek | August 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWith bacon-mania cresting, the question must be asked: What were we thinking?
Beyond, the hill went upward suddenly with the curve of a cresting wave.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil Fenollosacresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate.
A Frontier Mystery | Bertram Mitford
Three mornings they put out and fought it and the cresting seas it drove that turned to ice as they fell in-board.
The Red One | Jack LondonThe trail ran along a narrow ledge cresting an abrupt but bushy steep.
Kings in Exile | Sir Charles George Douglas RobertsThe Mission down below, in the dell, appeared in a bluish mist, only the cathedral cresting the hill.
British Dictionary definitions for cresting
/ (ˈkrɛstɪŋ) /
an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
carpentry a shaped decorative toprail or horizontal carved ornament surmounting a chair, mirror, etc
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