Definitions for cresset

cresset cres·set

Spelling: [kres-it]
IPA: /ˈkrɛs ɪt/

Cresset is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in cresset (ceersst).

Definitions for cresset

noun

  1. a metal cup or basket often mounted on a pole or suspended from above, containing oil, pitch, a rope steeped in rosin, etc., burned as a light or beacon.

Origin of cresset

1325-75; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French craisset, equivalent to cras grease + -et -et

Examples for cresset

His face was cruel and alert, and the light from the cresset played in red streaks upon his helmet.

The curtains in the cabin swayed to and fro, as did the cresset of the lamp.

The cresset moon was up in heaven—at least, Emma said it was—when we started.

At Lewannick, west of Lezant, a cresset stone has been preserved.

She stood under the cresset's light like a rock, while Lucy, like a wave, fretted about her.

A splinter of fir was burning in the cresset, and the fire was lighted in the stove.

Holdernesse's, her particular friend, from whence she removed to Kensington to a house Mr. cresset lent her.

The broken door let them into a small courtyard, lit by a cresset.

Then he opened them again, and gradually he made out the figure of Nuala leaning over him, while a cresset shed light from above.

Its numberless narrow windows were all aglow, and in a cresset on one tower a fire was burning brightly.

Word Value for cresset
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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