Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wicker basket, especially one used by anglers for carrying fish.
- n. A frame for holding bobbins or spools in a spinning machine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An osier basket or pannier. Specifically— A basket for carrying on the back or suspended from the shoulder: as, a fish-wife's creel; an angler's creel; a miner's creel.
- n. A basket or cage for catching lobsters or crabs.
- n. In angling, fish that are placed in a creel; the catch.
- n. In a spinning-machine, a framework for holding bobbins or spools.
- n. A kind of frame used for slaughtering sheep upon.
- n. Also crail.
- In angling, to put into the creel; hence, to capture: as, he creeled fifty trout.
Wiktionary
- n. fishing An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.
- n. A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An osier basket, such as anglers use.
- n. (Spinning) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish
Etymologies
- 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. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English crel, from Old French *creille, latticework, from Latin crātīcula, gridiron, diminutive of crātis, wickerwork. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The diftincHou teems hardly necefiarv, fince the term creel or up - right is taken fo loofely.”
“REGULATIONS: The daily creel is four trout under 12 inches, although guide services are typically catch-and-release only.”
“Now, a fisherman can always throw a catch he doesn't like back, but, ultimately, no matter how cunning and patient a sportsman he is, what ends up in his creel is really up to the fish.”
“A creel is the woven basket a fisherman keeps his catch in, but I can't see how that could enter into the equation.”
“In his creel were a dozen trout, for the speckled beauties had been rising to the fly that skipped across the top of the riffles as naturally as life.”
“The Cullercoats fishwife, with her cheerful weather-bronzed face, her short jacket and ample skirts of blue flannel, and her heavily laden "creel" of fish is not only appreciated by the brotherhood of brush and pencil, but is one of the notable sights of the district.”
“Denis Donohoe whistled merrily that night as he piled the donkey cart, or "creel," with the sods of turf.”
“creel," and in her hands another basket containing cooked prawns, lobsters or other temptation to the gourmand.”
“One of the main reasons we have so much good fishing is because of us, the fishermen, a portion of the money we spend on our sport goes back into the fisheries, along with some decent fisheries management, exceptional waters and views, add in some creel limits and it is all good.”
“One cool thing ... you can tie a friend's waders real high up in a tree at night, and fill them full of dirt ... when they come out, they'll search for a half hour and by that time you can be off doing your fishing and then they will be hot but not steaming when you've got three rainbows in your creel.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘creel’.
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PECH - fishing technology
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In the Collieries
A collection of coal mining and colliery terms. Some British, some Scots, and some, Other. Many terms are quite to the point; others colorful and imaginative.
Also see Middlesmith's li...fire-damp, black-damp, choke-damp, skip, basket, gallery, Gregory lamp, pit, balance, balancer, tenter, coupler and 313 more...
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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fearraigh's Words
heretofore, seldom, cunt, calamity, overhead, phalanx, flunky, factotum, terrestrial, dormant, afflatus, periphery and 156 more...
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An odd menagerie
Some of the creatures found in the Octopus's Garden.
vamoose, snowcat, moscow, firefox, jailbird, sawhorse, bumblepuppy, shoofly, hangdog, megabuck, engraven, brickbat and 49 more...
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Basketry
terms related to baskets
imbrication, weave, spokes, lashing, pannier, straw, birch, creel, bushel, wicker, reed, soaking and 6 more...
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container for the thing contained
sundry vessels
-with apologies to James Thurber.samovar, urn, kettle, cauldron, barrel, grail, amphora, creel, butt, flagon, vase, reliquary and 53 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir A bench for killing pigs. One of the very few Celtic words still used in Yorkshire. Mar 3, 2010
chained_bear "He laid his rod against a tree and swung the creel from his shoulder, woven reeds creaking with the weight of the catch."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 422
"The glow of recognized achievement did quite a bit to dampen her resentment... The presence of a bottle of cider in Jamie's creel, keeping cold amongst the dead trout, did a lot more."
—A Breath of Snow and Ashes, 424 Feb 1, 2010