noun
definition
An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.
definition
A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
verb
definition
To place (fish) in a creel.
Examples of creel in a Sentence
Joseph was ready to end the conversation but Dean was hoping for more fish in his creel.
Lifeboat assists grounded creel boat The Kirkwall lifeboat was called out on Tuesday to assist a creel boat The Kirkwall lifeboat was called out on Tuesday to assist a creel fishing boat aground off the Rendall shore.
Each fishing creel has a sturdy, leather strap and buckles and is carried effortlessly over the shoulder.
Naturalistic bronze cast statue of a fish-wife and little girl, the woman carrying a creel and a basket.
Dunbar fishermen creel fishing Open For hundreds of years we have found ways to help keep fish from going off.
Membership covers vessels in the whitefish, prawn, scallop and creel sectors and until recently there was also pelagic interests.
Bobbins to the number of strands which are to be twisted into one are mounted in a creel on the doubling frame, and the strands are passed over smooth rods of glass or metal through a reciprocating guide to the bobbin on which they are wound.
Fisherman baiting creel Open After the last creel in the ' set ' has been emptied they are then put back into the sea.
There's fishwife Liza Swan carrying her heavy creel, and children with bare feet sitting on the ground baiting lines.
It was generally observed but with much grumbling and denunciation of the chairman of the Committee, Mr. George Creel, as a " censor."