creel

Meanings

1. A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
2. An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
3. 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.
4. Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.
5. A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

1. To place (fish) in a creel.

1. To wrench or sprain.

1. A surname.

Etymology

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