Creel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A wicker basket, especially one used by anglers for carrying fish.
  • n. A frame for holding bobbins or spools in a spinning machine.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.
  • n. A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An osier basket, such as anglers use.
  • n. A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    basket    handbasket   
    Form
    creeler   
    Rhyme
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