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creel
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Word definitions for creel in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., originally Scottish, of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Middle French crille "latticework."
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.