noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A textile worker who tends the creel and other aspects of a yarn tufting or twisting machine or other kind of loom.
2. 2
   An angler who uses a creel in catching fish.

Etymology

From creel + -er.

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