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Creel   /kril/   Listen
Creel

noun
1.
A wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish.





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"Creel" Quotes from Famous Books



... be in a creel, Should I but dare a hope to speel Wi' Allan, or wi' Gilbertfield, The braes o' fame; Or Ferguson, the writer chiel, ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop
... not a single shield, but pieces of gear in the plural number were taken off Menelaus. The feeblest warrior without any assistance could stoop his head and put it through the belt of his shield, as an angler takes off his fishing creel, and there he was, totally disarmed. No squire was needed to disarm him, any more than to disarm Girard in the Chancun de Willame. Nobody explains why a shield is spoken of as a number of things, in the plural, ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang


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