cresting

[ kres-ting ]

noun

1. Architecture. a decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline.
2. Furniture. ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it.
3. a system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor.

cresting

/ ˈkrɛstɪŋ /

noun

1. an ornamental ridge along the top of a roof, wall, etc
2. carpentry a shaped decorative toprail or horizontal carved ornament surmounting a chair, mirror, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of cresting¹

First recorded in 1865–70; crest + -ing ¹

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?

From The Daily Beast

When my siblings and I would see the planes cresting the mountains, we would line up, hoping they would let us board.

From The Daily Beast

With bacon-mania cresting, the question must be asked: What were we thinking?

From The Daily Beast

Beyond, the hill went upward suddenly with the curve of a cresting wave.

From Project Gutenberg

Cresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate.

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Three mornings they put out and fought it and the cresting seas it drove that turned to ice as they fell in-board.

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The trail ran along a narrow ledge cresting an abrupt but bushy steep.

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The Mission down below, in the dell, appeared in a bluish mist, only the cathedral cresting the hill.

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