creel

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Creel

A fishwife with a creel and a basket

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.

creel (plural creels)

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

osier basket to hold fish

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

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