Cresting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An ornamental ridge, as on top of a wall or roof.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of crest.
  • n. An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In architecture, an ornamental finish to a wall or ridge; a crest, as the range of crest-tiles of an edifice.
    • Word Usage
    "They were lazily gliding through the water, or sleeping on the sandy bottom, and one shark was kind enough to show off its Jaws” dorsal fin cresting the surface of the water” impression."
    Verb Stem
    crest   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    arresting    attesting    besting    breasting    contesting    digesting    divesting    ingesting    investing    molesting   
     
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