creel

English

A fishwife with a creel and a basket

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English crele, from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula. The English word may also have been of Scottish origin originally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl

Noun

creel (plural creels)

1. (fishing) An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.
   • 1897, William Henley, In Fisherrow:

     Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh,

     Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers

2. 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)
• 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
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• Latin: nassa f
• Maori: tauremu
• Scottish Gaelic: cliabh m
• 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
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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