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Cresset
Cresset Cres"set (kr?s"s?t), n. [OF. crasset, cresset, sort of
lamp or torch; perh. of Dutch or German origin, and akin to
E. cruse, F. creuset crucible, E. crucible.]
1. 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.
Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha
and asphaltus. --Milton.
As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy
luster from a tower of strength. --Wordsworth.
2. (Coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for
charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves
flexible. --Knight.
Meaning of Cresset from wikipedia
- A
cresset is a
metal cup or basket,
often mounted to or
suspended from a pole,
containing oil, pitch, a rope
steeped in
rosin or
something flammable....
- The
Cresset Press was a
publishing company in London, England,
active as an
independent press from 1927 for 40 years, and
initially specializing in "expensively...
- Map all
coordinates in "Operation
Cresset"
using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
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Edward Cresset (c. 1698 – 1755) was an 18th-century
Anglican churchman.
Cresset was born in Glympton,
Oxfordshire and
educated at
Trinity College, Oxford...
- 'complete
world neglect'". However,
Richardson changed publishers and Dent &
Cresset Press published a new
Collected Edition of
Pilgrimage in 1938. This was...
-
edition of the
school yearbook, the
Cresset. The
school mascot, the Kewpie,
appeared for the
first time in the
Cresset ****ociated with the
basketball team...
- In 1954 she won the
William E.
Heinemann Award for her book The
Ermine (
Cresset Press, 1953).
Pitter was a
traditionalist poet; she
avoided most of the...
- but they may be
mostly decorative. A
sconce may be a
traditional torch,
cresset,
candle or gaslight, or a
modern electric light source affixed in the same...
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Retrieved May 1, 2011. Hal Bush (Christmas 2010). "A W**** at
Quarry Farm". The
Cresset, A
review of literature, the arts, and
public affairs,
Valparaiso University...
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dipped in
melted tallow or
sometimes a
strip of
burning cloth in a saucer/
cresset of
tallow grease was an
accessible substitute. Such a
candle was often...
