creel

Meanings

Noun

• A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
• A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

Verb

• To place (fish) in a creel.

Origin

• From Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula. Alternatively, this word may have originally been of Scottish origin.