creel
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A woven basket, especially a wicker basket: An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
- A woven basket, especially a wicker basket: 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.
- 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: Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.
- A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Verb
- To place (fish) in a creel.
- To wrench or sprain.
Proper noun
- A surname.
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