name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
creel
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kɹiːl/
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rhymes with -iːl
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CMU ARPABET: K R IY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wick
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fishing, hobbies, lifestyle
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Synonyms: wick
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noun
Meaning 4
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
Such a basket slung as a backpack for cargo, especially in times and places with limited or nonexistent wheeled transport, as for example among peasants in mountainous regions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: wick
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
Such a basket slung as a backpack for cargo, especially in times and places with limited or nonexistent wheeled transport, as for example among peasants in mountainous regions.
Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: wick
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, manufacturing, textiles
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verb
Meaning 7
To place (fish) in a creel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 8
To wrench or sprain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Appalachia, Southern-US
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noun
Meaning 9
a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: basket, handbasket
History
Etymology
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.
Unclear. The English Dialect Dictionary has cites of a British dialectal verb creel "crouch, bend the body" from 1897.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: винтер (vinter) — osier basket to hold fish
- Czech: vrš — osier basket to hold fish
- Dutch: leefnet — osier basket to hold fish
- Finnish: kalakori — osier basket to hold fish
- French: nasse — osier basket to hold fish
- Galician: nasa — osier basket to hold fish
- German: Fischkorb — osier basket to hold fish
- Ancient Greek: γυργαθός (gurgathós) — osier basket to hold fish
- Italian: nassa — osier basket to hold fish
- Latin: nassa — osier basket to hold fish
- Māori: tauremu — osier basket to hold fish
- Middle English: crele — osier basket to hold fish
- Scottish Gaelic: cliabh — osier basket to hold fish
- Thai: ข้อง (kɔ̂ng) — osier basket to hold fish
- Ottoman Turkish: بالق سپتی (balık sepeti) — osier basket to hold fish
- Vietnamese: oi — osier basket to hold fish
- German: Gatter — bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins
- Italian: cantra — bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins
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