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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...
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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...
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- Retrieved 23 January 2019. Allen, W. Gore (1960). King William IV. London: Cresset Press. Brock, Michael (2004). "William IV (1765–1837)"". Oxford Dictionary...
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