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cresting
[ kres-ting ]
noun
- Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.
- Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.
- a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.
cresting
/ ˈkrɛstɪŋ /
noun
- an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
- carpentry a shaped decorative toprail or horizontal carved ornament surmounting a chair, mirror, etc
Example Sentences
Will it be totally sanitized and full of glass-box condos or is the wave cresting and the tide about to run out?
When my siblings and I would see the planes cresting the mountains, we would line up, hoping they would let us board.
With bacon-mania cresting, the question must be asked: What were we thinking?
Beyond, the hill went upward suddenly with the curve of a cresting wave.
Cresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate.
Three mornings they put out and fought it and the cresting seas it drove that turned to ice as they fell in-board.
The trail ran along a narrow ledge cresting an abrupt but bushy steep.
The Mission down below, in the dell, appeared in a bluish mist, only the cathedral cresting the hill.
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