creel

Plural: creels

Noun

• a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish
• A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
• An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
• A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
• 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.
• A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
• 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

Verb Forms: creeled, creeling, creels

• To put fish into a wicker basket.
• To place (fish) in a creel.

Examples

• Time to creel these points by playing a simple but effective word.

Related Words

skep, skip

Anagrams of creel