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Definition of Cresset
1. n. An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.
Definition of Cresset
1. Noun. A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cresset
1. a metal cup for burning oil [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cresset
Literary usage of Cresset
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Each cresset had a man to bear it and another to serve it, so that the cresset-train
amounted in number to almost two thousand men. ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1908)
"Perhaps the first cresset-stone ever illustrated (certainly the first in this
country) was ... A very comprehensive sketch of the Lewannick cresset-stone, ..."
3. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1884)
"cresset Stone at Furness Abbey: A Correction. By the Rev. THOMAS LEES, MA IN a
paper read before this Society, at a meeting at Furness Abbey on August 16th, ..."
4. The French Humorists from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century by Walter Besant (1874)
"cresset. Alas! poor shepherd. — Ag You Like. 7t TT is the fate of some writers
to be remembered by a -*• single piece, that of most not to be remembered at ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"cresset AND "VERT-VERT.' JEAN-BAPTISTE GRESSET wrote little, but he wrote enough
to secure immortality. Except for one inspired moment in his manhood, ..."
6. The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough: With Some Account of His by Archibald Alison (1855)
"In a letter to Godolphin he observed, " I know, by the commission Mr cresset was
charged with, what you and I were to expect. When I see you, ..."
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