cresset noun.
['krɛsɪt] 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.
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