creel

See also: Creel

English

A fishwife with a creel and a basket

Etymology

From Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula. Alternatively, this word may have originally been of Scottish origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹiːl/

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• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

creel (plural creels)

1. A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
   1. (fishing) An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
      • 1895, R. D. Blackmore, Slain By The Doones, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 6:

        Return with a creel of trout for supper.

      • 1897, William Henley, In Fisherrow:

        Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh,
        Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers

   2. (chiefly historical) 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.
      1. (chiefly historical) Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.
2. (textile making) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

Derived terms

• creeler

Translations

osier basket to hold fish

• Bulgarian: винтер m (vinter)
• Czech: vrš (cs) m
• Dutch: leefnet (nl) n
• Finnish: kalakori
• French: nasse (fr) f
• Galician: nasa f
• German: Fischkorb m
• Greek:

  Ancient: γυργαθός m (gurgathós)

• Italian: nassa (it) f
• Latin: nassa f
• Maori: tauremu
• Middle English: crele
• Ottoman Turkish: بالق سپتی (balık sepeti)
• Scottish Gaelic: cliabh m
• Thai: ข้อง (th) (kɔ̂ng)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: oi (vi)

bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins

• German: Gatter (de) n
• Italian: cantra f

See also

• skep
• skip

Verb

creel (third-person singular simple present creels, present participle creeling, simple past and past participle creeled)

1. (transitive) To place (fish) in a creel.

Anagrams

• cleer