creel

Meanings

Plural: creels

Noun

a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
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.
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:
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.
A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

Verb

To place (fish) in a creel.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.

Scrabble Score: 7

creel is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
creel is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
creel is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

creel is a valid Words With Friends word