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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
creel
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ George whipped the trousers off the table and placed them on a hanger which he attached to a wooden creel.
▪ Hooking a fish and letting it suffocate in a creel is seemingly acceptable to all fishermen and many other people.
▪ The seals have been robbing the creels blind.
▪ When he was fifty yards down the path he remembered the trousers still on the creel.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creel

Creel \Creel\ (kr[=e]l), n. [Gael. craidhleag basket, creel.]

  1. An osier basket, such as anglers use.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. (Spinning) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
creel

early 14c., originally Scottish, of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Middle French crille "latticework."

Wiktionary
creel

n. 1 (context fishing English) An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish. 2 A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

WordNet
creel

n. a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish

Wikipedia
Creel

Creel and Creels can refer to:

  • Creel (surname)
  • Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico
  • Creels, West Virginia
  • Creel (textiles)- the row of cops containing the roving on a Waterframe or Throstle frame
  • Creel (basket), a type of basket used in fly fishing
  • Creel-Terrazas Family, a notable family in the Mexican state of Chihuahua
Creel (basket)

Creel is a type of small wicker basket mainly used by anglers to hold fish or other prey. A creel is designed to function as an evaporative cooler when lined with moss and dipped into the creek in order to keep the catch chilled. Caught fish are inserted through a slot in the top which is held in place by a small leather strap.

Creel (surname)

Creel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Enrique Creel (1854–1931), Mexican politician and industrialist, namesake of Creel, Chihuahua
  • Gavin Creel (born 1976), American actor and singer
  • George Creel (1876–1953), American journalist, politician, and head of Committee on Public Information
  • Herrlee Glessner Creel (1905–1994), American sinologist and philosopher
  • Jack Creel (1916–2002), American Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Leanna Creel (born 1970), American actress and film producer
  • Santiago Creel (born 1954), Mexican politician
  • Walton Creel (born 1974), American artist
  • William Jackson Creel, American doctor and namesake for several Floridian structures

Fictional characters:

  • Carl "Crusher" Creel, the fictional Absorbing Man
  • Padishar Creel, character from Terry Brooks' Shannara novels

Usage examples of "creel".

Gregor grunted and left the relatively rugged trilobites to fend for themselves in the netting and creels while he pitched in to deal with the small shelly fauna.

Panamon Creel, still angered, but now bewildered by the sudden appearance of this creature, lowered Shea to the earth abruptly and turned to face the strange newcomer.

Orval Creel, chairman of the House Committee on Assassination Conspiracies and Attempts, in parentheses (CACA).

From the two parts emerged a tiny creature, not much bigger than Menolly's hand, glistening brown and creeling with hunger, swaying its head back and forth and tottering forward a few awkward steps.

There were so many now paired off with wobbly-legged hatchlings, all creeling with hunger, lurching and falling towards the entrance.

The shell cracked wide open, and a little bronze fire lizard rolled into his hands, creeling with hunger, its body glistening.

She jammed meat on Sebell's seeking hand and then pushed it back to the frantically creeling queen.

But his fire lizard's creeling abated with the first mouthful of meat.

He wore a loose robe, but he obviously had been drawn from his bed by the creeling and shouts.

He had a fur clutched around him and an insistently creeling fire lizard clawing at his bare arm.

She jammed meat on Sebell’s seeking hand and then pushed it back to the frantically creeling queen.

But his fire lizard’s creeling abated with the first mouthful of meat.

Menolly heard the noise from the apprentices' dormitory, and a soft, all but inaudible, creeling closer by.

But his fire lizard's creeling abated with the first mouth ful of meat.

Menolly heard the noise from the apprentices' dormi tory, and a soft, all but inaudible, creeling closer by.