Cresset

Origin

Old French crasset, cresset ("sort of lamp or torch"); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse, French creuset ("crucible").

Full definition of cresset

Noun

1. A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.
• MiltonStarry lamps and blazing cressets, fed
  With naphtha and asphaltus.
• WordsworthAs a cresset true that darts its length
  Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.
2. (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
• DanteWe reached the lofty turret's base, our eyes
  its height ascended, where we marked uphung
  two cressets and another saw from far

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