cresting

[ kres-ting ]

/ ˈkrɛs tɪŋ /

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noun

Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.

Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.

a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.

Origin of cresting

First recorded in 1865–70; crest + -ing¹

Words nearby cresting

crest cloud, crested dog's-tail, crested tit, crested wheatgrass, crestfallen, cresting, Crestone Needle, Crestone Peak, Crestor, crest rail, CREST syndrome

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Example sentences from the Web for cresting

A globe-shaped ciborium, with cresting and knop of the fourteenth century, is interesting.
The Shores of the Adriatic|F. Hamilton Jackson
It is cylindrical in form, divided into three storeys of open tracery, and crowned with a cresting of three-lobed leaves.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells|Percy Dearmer
Cresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate.
A Frontier Mystery|Bertram Mitford
The silver mace-heads were mostly plain, with a cresting of leaves or flowers in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 2|Various

The total height of this screen is not less than thirty feet, of which the cresting is about a third.
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain|George Edmund Street

British Dictionary definitions for cresting

cresting

/ (ˈkrɛstɪŋ) /

noun

an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc

carpentry a shaped decorative toprail or horizontal carved ornament surmounting a chair, mirror, etc

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单词	cresting
释义	cresting [ kres-ting ] / ˈkrɛs tɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR cresting ON THESAURUS.COM noun Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline. Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it. a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor. Origin of cresting First recorded in 1865–70; crest + -ing¹ Words nearby cresting crest cloud, crested dog's-tail, crested tit, crested wheatgrass, crestfallen, cresting, Crestone Needle, Crestone Peak, Crestor, crest rail, CREST syndrome Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cresting A globe-shaped ciborium, with cresting and knop of the fourteenth century, is interesting. The Shores of the Adriatic\|F. Hamilton Jackson It is cylindrical in form, divided into three storeys of open tracery, and crowned with a cresting of three-lobed leaves. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells\|Percy Dearmer Cresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate. A Frontier Mystery\|Bertram Mitford The silver mace-heads were mostly plain, with a cresting of leaves or flowers in the 15th and 16th centuries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 2\|Various The total height of this screen is not less than thirty feet, of which the cresting is about a third. Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain\|George Edmund Street British Dictionary definitions for cresting cresting / (ˈkrɛstɪŋ) / noun an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc carpentry a shaped decorative toprail or horizontal carved ornament surmounting a chair, mirror, etc Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to cresting climax, crest, culminate, conquer, climb, finish, cover, cap, face, exceed, complete, beat, clinch, wrap up, crown, surpass, eclipse, lick, subdue, down
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cresting

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