Noun: creel
| Singular | creel |
| Plural | creels |
Sample Sentences
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For this purpose they got an old creel to put him in and some straw to light under it. Seeing the serious turn matters were likely to take, he resolved not to await the trial, but flew up the smoke-hole, and when at the top he cried out that things would have gone very differently with them had it not been for the arrival of their guests. [1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 393:]
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Return with a creel of trout for supper. [1895, R. D. Blackmore, Slain By The Doones, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 6:]
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Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh,
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Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers [1897, William Henley, In Fisherrow:]
Nouns inflected like creel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula. See: French Nouns '
grille', Latin Nouns '
crāticula'.