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Word entry · 7 letters

cresset

Best crossword clue

"Fire basket"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɹɛs.ɪt/Sorted ceersstStarts with CEnds with T1 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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;

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