creel

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
3. An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
4. 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
5. Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.
   historical
6. A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

Equivalents

Examples

“Return⟳ with a creel of trout for supper.”

“Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh, Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers”

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