cressetとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛsɪt/

名詞

cresset (複数形 cressets)

1. A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed / With naphtha and asphaltus.

   • 1835, William Wordsworth, Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland

     As a cresset true that darts its length / Of beamy lustre from a tower of strength.

2. (coopering) 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

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