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creel /kriːl/ noun [countable] BEa fisherman’s basket for carrying fish 鱼篓,鱼篮Examples from the Corpuscreel• Hooking a fish and letting it suffocate in a creel is seemingly acceptable to all fishermen and many other people.• When he was fifty yards down the path he remembered the trousers still on the creel.• The seals have been robbing the creels blind.• George whipped the trousers off the table and placed them on a hanger which he attached to a wooden creel.Origin creel (1300-1400) Probably from an unrecorded Old French creille “grill”, from Latin craticula; → GRILL2creel nounChinese fish basket a carrying Corpus for fisherman’s |