Usually means: Reaching the peak or summit.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word cresting:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cresting: Merriam-Webster
  2. cresting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cresting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cresting: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cresting: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cresting, cresting: Wordnik
  7. cresting: Wiktionary
  8. cresting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cresting: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cresting, cresting: Dictionary.com
  11. cresting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Cresting (architecture), Cresting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cresting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cresting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Cresting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. cresting: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cresting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cresting: Legal dictionary
  2. cresting: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cresting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cresting: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cresting: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Cresting: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See crest as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cresting)

noun:  (architecture) An ornamental finish on the top of a wall or ridge of a roof.

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