cresset

n. 灯号, 标灯

发音

其它 /ˈkɹɛsɪt/

词形变化

cressets 复数 cressets

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    历史
  2. 2.

    A metal cage, basket or cup with fire in it, used for various purposes:

    A metal basket filled with burning material, used to attract fish when night fishing; a fire basket.

  3. 3.

    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

词源

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.

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