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Cresset

//ˈkɹɛsɪt// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:; A metal cup, suspended from or attached to the top of a pole and filled with burning pitch etc., used as portable illumination. historical
"Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed / With naphtha and asphaltus."
2
A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:; A metal basket filled with burning material, used to attract fish when night fishing; a fire basket.
3
A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:; 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"

Etymology

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.

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