different between cask vs cresset

English

Etymology

From Middle French casque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??sk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kæsk/
• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

cask (plural casks)

1. A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
2. (obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, III. ii. 409:

     A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.

3. Obsolete form of casque (“visorless helmet”).

Derived terms

• cask beer

Translations

Verb

cask (third-person singular simple present casks, present participle casking, simple past and past participle casked)

1. To put into a cask.

Related terms

• quash

Anagrams

• ACKs, SKCA, acks, sack

English

Etymology

From Old French crasset, cresset (“sort of lamp or torch”); perhaps of Old Dutch or Old High German origin, and akin to English cruse, French creuset (“crucible”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??s?t/

Noun

cresset (plural cressets)

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

See also

• brazier

Anagrams

• Secrest, resects, secrets