cresting

[ kres-ting ]

/ ˈkrɛs tɪŋ /

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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.

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Origin of cresting

First recorded in 1865–70; crest + -ing¹

Words nearby cresting

crest cloud, crested dog's-tail, crested tit, crested wheatgrass, crestfallen, cresting, Crestone Needle, Crestone Peak, crest rail, Crestwood, cresyl

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How to use cresting in a sentence

Will it be totally sanitized and full of glass-box condos or is the wave cresting and the tide about to run out?
The Death of Lou Reed’s New York|Charles Upton Sahm|November 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When my siblings and I would see the planes cresting the mountains, we would line up, hoping they would let us board.
Supermodel Alek Wek’s Bittersweet Return Home—to a Free South Sudan|Alek Wek|August 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST
With bacon-mania cresting, the question must be asked: What were we thinking?
America's Bacon Addiction|Sarah Whitman-Salkin|June 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Beyond, the hill went upward suddenly with the curve of a cresting wave.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Cresting a rise about three miles distant I made out a dark mass moving forward along our track, and that at a rapid rate.
A Frontier Mystery|Bertram Mitford
Three mornings they put out and fought it and the cresting seas it drove that turned to ice as they fell in-board.
The Red One|Jack London
The trail ran along a narrow ledge cresting an abrupt but bushy steep.
Kings in Exile|Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
The Mission down below, in the dell, appeared in a bluish mist, only the cathedral cresting the hill.
Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan|Pter Vay

British Dictionary definitions for cresting

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

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cresting

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