CRESSET

Definition: CRESSET

CRESSET

Noun

1. A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.

2. An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CRESSET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Indication

Signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower; telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset, fiery cross; calumet; heliograph; guidon; headlight.

Crosswords: CRESSET

Books

• Cresset, a collection of commemorative lectures (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Cresset (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Beginning with "CRESSET": cresset-torch.

Albanian

pishtar (flambeau, lamplighter, link, torch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشعل (beacon, flambeau, torch), ‏نبراس (lamp, light). (various references)

Bulgarian 

светилник, факел (brand, lamp, torch). (various references)

Czech

kotel (boiler, kettledrum). (various references)

French

flamme. (various references)

Greek 

πυρσόσ (beacon, brand, flambeau, torch), φάροσ (beacon, lighthouse), φανόσ (lantern). (various references)

Hungarian

fáklyatartó. (various references)

Pig Latin

essetcray

Portuguese

fogaréu, facho (flambeau, torch). (various references)

Russian 

факел (flambeau, torch, torchlight). (various references)

Turkish

meşale (flambeau, link, torch), kandil (candle, oil lamp), fener (beacon, dark lantern, flambeau, glim, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, phanar). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đèn chòi canh, đèn bến cảng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "CRESSET": cressets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CRESSET" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chrissst, cresent, Cressa, Cresse, cressent, Cresser, Cressid, creste. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: resects, secrets.

-1 letter: certes, crests, erects, esters, recess, reests, resect, resets, screes, secret, serest, steers, steres, terces.

-2 letters: ceres, cetes, cress, crest, erect, erses, ester, reest, reset, rests, scree, sects, seers, seres, steer, stere, terce, terse, trees, tress.

-3 letters: cees, cere, cess, cete, erst, eses, recs, rees, rest, rete, rets, secs, sect, seer, sees, sere, sers.

+1 letter: cateress, cerastes, cressets, respects, scepters, sceptres, secretes, securest, sesterce, setscrew, specters, spectres.

+2 letters: actresses, cerusites, cerussite, corselets, creasiest, creosotes, crescents, crestless, cursedest, curtesies, electress, erectness, icteruses, precisest, reascents, sarcenets, sclerites, screwiest, secateurs, secretest, secretins, secretors, sectaries, selectors, sesterces, setscrews, sincerest, sketchers, stretches, tesseract, traceless, tricepses, trisceles.

+3 letters: ancestress, ancestries, antecessor, careerists, cartelises, cateresses, centerless, cerussites, chasteners, consenters, contesters, copresents, corsetries, cotrustees, cotterless, courtesies, covertness, crosstrees, curtnesses, desecrates, directness, directress, disrespect, intersects, masseteric, miscreates, newscaster, persecutes, preselects, prosecutes, recentness, reductases, reinspects, resections, resistance, resketches, respecters, restitches, resurrects, scatterers, secretions, securities, seductress, semisecret, stavesacre, stencilers, streetcars, stretchers, stridences, subcenters, syncretise, tesseracts, victresses, watercress.