Creel definition

krēl

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A frame or rack for holding the bobbins or spools in spinning or weaving.

noun

A frame for holding bobbins or spools in a spinning machine.

noun

A wicker basket, canvas bag, etc. for holding fish, often worn over the shoulder by a person who fishes.

noun

A wicker basket, especially one used by anglers for carrying fish.

noun

A basketlike cage for trapping fish, shellfish, etc.

noun

(fishing) An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.

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

noun

Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of creel - kreel

Singular:

creel

Plural:

creels

Middle English crel from Old French creille latticework from Latin crātīcula gridiron diminutive of crātis wickerwork

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English crele, from a Old French root *creille, variant of greille (cf. French grille), from Latin crāticula. The English word may also have been of Scottish origin originally.

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