Definitions
A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes
Word origin
Inherited 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.
Used in a sentence
“Of Starry Lamps and blazing Creſſets fed ¶ With Naphtha and Aſphaltus yeilded light”
“And as a Cresset true that darts its length ¶ Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength;”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fire basket”7 letters
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