cresset

/ˈkɹɛs.ɪt/

Etymology

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.

cresset means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

cresset is pronounced /ˈkɹɛs.ɪt/.

name

A surname.

noun

A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:; A metal cup, suspended from or attached to the top of a pole and filled with burning pitch etc., used as portable illumination.“Of Starry Lamps and blazing Creſſets fed ¶ With Naphtha and Aſphaltus yeilded light”
A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:; A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.“1805–1814, Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (translator), The Divine Comedy, "Inferno", Canto VIII We reach'd the lofty turret's base, our eyes / its height ascended, where we mark'd uphung / two cressets and another saw from far”