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Crest
krɛst
- a comb or tuft of feathers, fur, or skin on the head of a bird or other animal
"a large game bird with a conspicuous erect red crest"
- a plume of feathers on a helmet
- the top of a mountain or hill
"she reached the crest of the hill"
summit peak highest point top mountaintop tip pinnacle brow crown head cap brink apex vertex apogee zenith- a ridge along the surface of a bone
"biopsy specimens of the iliac crest were obtained under local anaesthesia"
- the upper line of the neck of a horse or other mammal
"take hold of the mane halfway up the horse's crest"
- the curling foamy top of a wave
"a high wave formed by the meeting of two crests"
- a distinctive device representing a family or corporate body, borne above the shield of a coat of arms (originally as worn on a helmet) or separately reproduced, for example on writing paper
- reach the top of (a hill or wave)
"she crested a hill and saw the valley spread out before her"
- (of a river, flood, etc.) rise to its highest level
- (of a wave) form a curling foamy top
"the swell begins to curl and crest"
- have attached at the top
"his helmet was crested with a fan of spikes"