Noun: cresset
| Singular | cresset |
| Plural | cressets |
Sample Sentences
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Of Starry Lamps and blazing Creſſets fed ¶ With Naphtha and Aſphaltus yeilded light [1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [C4], verso, lines 728–729:]
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And as a Cresset true that darts its length ¶ Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength; [a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “Stanzas suggested in a Steam-boat off St. Bees’ Heads, on the coast of Cumberland”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 316, column 2:]
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1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII
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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
Nouns inflected like cresset
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
cresset', Middle English Nouns '
cresset', French Nouns '
creuset'.