Definitions for cresting

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cresting crest·ing

Spelling: [kres-ting]

IPA: /ˈkrɛs tɪŋ/

Cresting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 367 anagrams from letters in cresting (ceginrst).

Definitions for cresting

noun

1. Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.
2. Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.
3. a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.
4. the highest part of a hill or mountain range; summit.
5. the head or top of anything.
6. a ridge or ridgelike formation.
7. the foamy top of a wave.
8. the point of highest flood, as of a river.
9. the highest point or level; climax; culmination.
10. a tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal, as the comb of a rooster.
11. anything resembling or suggesting such a tuft.
12. the ridge of the neck of a horse, dog, etc.
13. the mane growing from this ridge.
14. an ornament or heraldic device surmounting a helmet.
15. a helmet.
16. a ridge running from front to back along the top of a helmet; comb.
17. Heraldry. a figure borne above the escutcheon in an achievement of arms, either on a helmet or by itself as a distinguishing device.
18. Anatomy. a ridge, especially on a bone.
19. a ridge or other prominence on any part of the body of an animal.
20. Architecture. a cresting.
21. Machinery. (in a screw or other threaded object) the ridge or surface farthest from the body of the object and defined by the flanks of the thread. Compare root1 (def 15a).

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a crest.
2. to serve as a crest for; crown or top.
3. to reach the crest or summit of (a hill, mountain, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to form or rise to a crest, as a wave or river.
2. to reach the crest or highest level:

Origin of cresting

First recorded in 1865-70; crest + -ing¹

Examples for cresting

"Yes," replied Bernardine, cresting her beautiful head, proudly.

He was still far off when she first glimpsed him, just cresting one of the higher hills, so that for him the sun had not yet set.

The pierced pattern in cresting should be done as already described for Fig. 24.

The balustrade also is replaced by the chneau, a cresting in stone, which hereafter is found in nearly all French buildings.

Six miles from Menin and four from Ypres it passes through the village of Gheluvelt, cresting there the ridge of hills.

Now and then a rubbish pile will show itself, cresting the pure ice.

On these wings and the central block are other galleries crowned with entablature and cresting.

Except when cresting a ridge, the traveller swelters under an unbroken roof of impenetrable foliage.

cresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate.

Three mornings they put out and fought it and the cresting seas it drove that turned to ice as they fell in-board.