Cresset

Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed / With naphtha and asphaltus.

As a cresset true that darts its length / Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.

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