creel
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9.9
A wicker basket that people who fish use to carry caught fish
- noun
- /kril/
- Specialized
:
cesta de pesca
- His uncle set aside two big ones for dinner and packed the rest into the bulging creels.
Examples
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As before, he put them in his creel and hurried off to sanctuary.
Blog text (5) -
His uncle asked to see the fish in the creels.
Fiction book (1999) -
I was looking in your creel for a knife.
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"Fill the creels," his uncle said.
Fiction book (1999) -
Miss March placed what looked like a hard-plastic fishing creel on the end table.
Fiction book (1999) -
Fishermen will come to fill their creels with bream, bluegill, sac-a-lait.
Fiction book (1993) -
The fisherman carried his catch in a traditional creel made of woven wicker.
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After a successful day on the lake, he showed off his full creel of fish to his friends.
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She placed the caught trout into her creel before continuing to fish.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Creel comes from an old northern English and Scots word for a 'basket' used by fishers, so a creel is the wicker basket anglers carry to hold their catch.