cresset
A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposesA 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.
Meaning
2 sensesA metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:
(historical)A metal cup, suspended from or attached to the top of a pole and filled with burning pitch etc., used as portable illumination.
A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Inherited from Middle English cresset, from Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp orInherited 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.
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