n. An osier basket or pannier.n. A basket or cage for catching lobsters or crabs.n. In angling, fish that are placed in a creel; the catch.n. In a spinning-machine, a framework for holding bobbins or spools.n. A kind of frame used for slaughtering sheep upon.n. Also crail.In angling, to put into the creel; hence, to capture: as, he creeled fifty trout.