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Creel
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.; An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
"Return with a creel of trout for supper."
- 2 a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish wordnet
- 3 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. historical
- 4 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. historical
- 5 A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
- 1 To place (fish) in a creel. transitive
- 2 To wrench or sprain. Appalachia, Southern-US
"For aught that appears in the record, plaintiff's fall was due entirely to the fact that his foot "creeled," and no one can say that his injuries were not due to the fall, but to the fact that he rolled down the embankment. […] he stepped around, and in doing so "creeled his foot in some way" and fell down the embankment, […]"
Etymology
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.
Unclear. The English Dialect Dictionary has cites of a British dialectal verb creel "crouch, bend the body" from 1897.
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