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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cres·set /ˈkrɛsət/
 燈號,標燈,油盞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cres·set n.
 1. 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.
 Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed
 With naphtha and asphaltus.   --Milton.
 As a cresset true that darts its length
 Of beamy luster from a tower of strength.   --Wordsworth.
 2. Coopering A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible.