name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
cresset
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Pronunciation
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krĕs′ĭt
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: /ˈkɹɛs.ɪt/
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɹes.ɪt/
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New-Zealand: /ˈkɹes.ət/
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India: /ˈkɾɛ(ː)s.ɪʈ/
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rhymes with -ɛsɪt
noun
Meaning 2
A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
A metal cup, suspended from or attached to the top of a pole and filled with burning pitch etc., used as portable illumination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 3
A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far
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History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cresset, from Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse and/or French creuset (“crucible”), the latter being from Gallo-Roman Vulgar Latin *croceolus.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Middle English: cresset — metal cup filled with pitch
- Polish: kaganiec — metal cup filled with pitch
- Polish: kaganiec — iron cage to hold fire
- Polish: kaganek — iron cage to hold fire
- Spanish: antorcha — iron cage to hold fire