Meaning of creelful | Babel Free

Definitions

The amount that fills a creel.

Examples

“Of courſe, a Scots acre ſhould produce⟳ about 1653 creelfuls, weighing about 44 tons 12 cwt., which, according to the above opinion of kelpers, would produce⟳ about 1 ton and 14 cwt. of kelp of 21 cwt. per ton, which is about 13 cwt. more p. acre than the reſult of the above manufacture⟳.”

“The wives of the Newhaven fishermen carry⟳ the fish⟳ caught by their husbands to Edinburgh, a distance of about two miles, in wicker baskets, or creels, on their shoulders and hawk them about the streets to the musical refrain of “Caller Haddies;” at night the fisher girls go about with creelsful of oysters in the same way, their cry⟳ being “Caller Ou.””

“He’s luring the salmon to rise⟳ at the fly⟳, / He’s catching the trout by the creelful; / He’s shooting the pheasant to put⟳ in the pie, / And of wild-duck he’s getting a mealful.”

“Sometimes these little ponds were generous, and I remember⟳ the time that Frank Klune and I caught such creelsful of big brook trout from the beaver ponds on Empire Creek that we were arrested and accused of poaching a lake belonging to the mayor of Leadville.”

“Between them they had carried the packages of paintings and drawings the three miles to Ardessie, two creelsful, burdens that made them breathe⟳ heavily.”

“Then creelfuls of darker peat, broken smaller, were just piled inside.”

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