creel
A woven basket, especially a wicker basketA woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
» A well-used creel might better not be picked as a picnic hamper.
Meaning
5 sensesA woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
Fischkorb
(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.
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.
(historical)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.
Gatter
Examples
1 sentencesA well-used creel might better not be picked as a picnic hamper.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 2
Origin
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, vInherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.
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