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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