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Cresses vs Cresset - What's the difference?

cresses | cresset |

As nouns the difference between cresses and cresset

is that cresses is plural of cress while cresset is a metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.

cresses

English

Noun

(head)
    • ----

    cresset

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.
  • * Milton
    • Starry lamps and blazing cressets , fed / With naphtha and asphaltus.
  • * Wordsworth
    • As a cresset true that darts its length / Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.
  • (coopering) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.
  • * Dante
    • We reached the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we marked uphung / two cresset s and another saw from far
    (Knight)

    See also

    * brazier

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