to creel
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9.9
To put caught fish into a basket
- verb
- /kril/
- Specialized
:
meter en la cesta
- Amaranth pushed at her, urgently creeling her hunger.
Examples
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After catching several trout, he decided to creel them until he reached the campsite.
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The skilled angler carefully creeled the fish he had caught earlier in the day.
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Once they finished fishing, they creeled their catch and headed back to the lodge.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Creel comes from the same old word for a 'basket' for fish, so to creel fish simply means to put the caught fish into that basket.