creel.
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
Meaning & usage
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket. An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket. Such a basket slung as a backpack for cargo, especially in times and places with limited or nonexistent wheeled transport, as for example among peasants in mountainous regions.
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket. Such a basket slung as a backpack for cargo, especially in times and places with limited or nonexistent wheeled transport, as for example among peasants in mountainous regions. Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.
A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.
To place (fish) in a creel.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.
To wrench or sprain.
Where this word comes from
Unclear. The English Dialect Dictionary has cites of a British dialectal verb creel "crouch, bend the body" from 1897.
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