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decorative coping, balustrade, etc., usually designed to give an interesting skyline; ornamentation either carved or sawed in the top rail of a piece or else added to it; system of ornamental ridges or flutes on a piece of plate armor; the top of a hill; the highest point; tuft on the head of a bird or animal; the foamy top of a wave; heraldic device; to form or rise to a crest

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  • And St. Louis, you're kind of cresting now, but you're going to hold steady there for days to come.
  • Some of the cresting on the north side is also new.
  • The Mississippi cresting today at Winfield, Missouri.
  • The surf today, cresting in some areas at over 40 feet.
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