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cresset (iou)



cresset noun. LME.
[Old French cresset, craisset, from craisse var. of graisse oil, GREASE noun: see -ET1.]
Hist. A metal vessel, usu. mounted on a pole, for holding oil, coal, etc., to be burnt for light.
fig.: Sir W. Scott The moon..hung her dim dull cresset in the heavens.
Comb.: cresset-light a blazing cresset; the light of a cresset; a beacon-light.