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n. A metal cup, often suspended on a pole, containing burning oil or pitch and used as a torch.

n. A metal cup, suspended from a pole and filled with burning pitch etc; once used as portable illumination.

n. A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.

n. An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions.

n. A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.

n. A cup of any incombustible material mounted upon a pole or suspended from above, and serving to contain a light often made by the burning of a coil of pitched rope. Compare beacon.

n. An iron frame used by coopers in heating barrels, to clear the inside and make the staves flexible.

n. A kitchen utensil for setting a pot-over the fire.

n. A chafer or small portable furnace upon which a dish can be set to be kept hot.

"The leaves of the square-stemmed figwort, which they called 'cresset' or 'cressil,' were occasionally placed on a sore; and the yarrow -- locally 'yarra' -- was yet held in estimation as a salve or ointment."

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