英语词汇“cresset”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cresset

/ˈkrɛsɪt

noun historical

A metal container of oil, grease, wood, or coal set alight for illumination and typically mounted on a pole.He arose and went to her as I lit the cresset from the brazier coals....

In addition to these fires, the streets were lined with lanterns, and people carried cressets (pivoted lanterns atop poles) as they wandered from one bonfire to another.
Fire baskets or cressets mounted at the prows of the fishing barges seem to attract prey for the cormorants.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from craisse, variant of graisse 'oil, grease'.

单词	cresset
释义	cresset /ˈkrɛsɪt / noun historical A metal container of oil, grease, wood, or coal set alight for illumination and typically mounted on a pole.He arose and went to her as I lit the cresset from the brazier coals.... In addition to these fires, the streets were lined with lanterns, and people carried cressets (pivoted lanterns atop poles) as they wandered from one bonfire to another. Fire baskets or cressets mounted at the prows of the fishing barges seem to attract prey for the cormorants. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from craisse, variant of graisse 'oil, grease'. Rhymes Knesset
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