cresting

[ kres-ting ]
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noun
  1. Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.

  2. Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.

  1. a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.

Origin of cresting

1
First recorded in 1865–70; crest + -ing1

Words Nearby cresting

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How to use cresting in a sentence

  • 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 London
  • The trail ran along a narrow ledge cresting an abrupt but bushy steep.

    Kings in Exile | Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
  • The Mission down below, in the dell, appeared in a bluish mist, only the cathedral cresting the hill.

British Dictionary definitions for cresting

cresting

/ (ˈkrɛstɪŋ) /


noun
  1. an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc

  2. carpentry a shaped decorative toprail or horizontal carved ornament surmounting a chair, mirror, etc

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