creel

English

A fishwife with a creel and a basket

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English crele, from a 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)

(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
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

Dutch: leefnet n
Finnish: kalakori
French: nasse (fr) f
Galician: nasa f
German: Fischkorb m
Italian: nassa (it) f

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

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

cleer