What is "creels"

Usage examples of "creels".

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.

A couple of Ivets were in the river, Irley and Scott, hauling up their creels full of mousecrabs.

They caught a huge number of mousecrabs in their creels, which they traded for other types of food among the other villagers.

Several times I looked around furtively at the people passing us on their daily tasks: a baker with his tray of bread, some fishermen with heavy creels, a tanner trotting along, the hides of his burden strapped to his back.

With creels of shrill delight, the old queen and her bronzes settled on the bones.

They can carry on whole conversations with their minds while their bodies complete this virtuoso performance with the spools and the creels, the shuttles and the bobbins.

In some of the wicker creels flopped bottom-dwelling fish with armored heads.

It was inevitable that the Creels would find a new enemy to take the place of the Huns.