Crown

1. To cover, decorate, or invest with a crown; hence, to invest with royal dignity and power.
2. To bestow something upon as a mark of honor, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify.
3. To form the topmost or finishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect.
4. (Mech.) To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.
5. (Mil.) To effect a lodgment upon, as upon the crest of the glacis, or the summit of the breach.
To crown a knot (Naut.),
to lay the ends of the strands over and under each other.