Cresset

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A metal cup, suspended from or attached to the top of a pole and filled with burning pitch etc., used as portable illumination.

   “Of Starry Lamps and blazing Creſſets fed ¶ With Naphtha and Aſphaltus yeilded light”

2. isim A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.

   “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”

3. özel isim A surname.