单词 | creel |
释义 | creeln.1 1. a. A large wicker basket; formerly applied to the large deep baskets, coupled in pairs across the backs of horses, for the transport of goods; in later use applied to a basket used for the transport of fish and borne upon the back, to a potato-basket, and the like. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > baskets borne by persons or beasts of burden dosserc1384 pot1388 hota1400 creelc1425 panniera1656 dossel1755 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > for carrying > carried on the back back-basket?c1225 creel1803 puttony1940 warishi1941 c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xxxviii. 51 A payr of Coil Crelis. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 101 Crelle, baskett or lepe, cartallus, sporta. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 207 Cager aviris castis bayth coillis and creilis. 1564 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 224 A basket and iij kreles. 1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 367 He kest twa Creillis on ane Capill, with Coillis anew. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 46 Ȝe him hang ouir ȝour wallis in a creill. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God vi. ix. 251 There was also the vanne..which is otherwise called the creele. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xviii. 66 His Horse loaden with Creels, or small Panniers. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Fisher-Row Fishers and their wives, who carry the fish in creels to Edinburgh. 1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. (E.D.S.) Creel, two semi-circular wicker baskets joined by cords which admit of their closing to hold hay. A man having the creel strapped over his shoulders, conveys provender to sheep. 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 121 When the father of the last Lord Reay..changed his residence..his son was put into a creel on one side of a pony, and counterbalanced by his younger brother, the admiral, in another. 1869–78 R. B. Peacock Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 206 An old fishwife, with her creel on her back. b. A modern term for an angler's fishing-basket. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > angler's basket rope basket1811 fishing-basket1838 creel1842 1842 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 4 Ere the Creel was half stocked. 1874 C. Keene Let. in G. S. Layard Life & Lett. C. S. Keene (1892) 159 I hope you had a good time with rod and creel. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan i. i. 227 It is not every fish you hook that comes to the creel. 2. A contrivance made of wickerwork used as a trap for catching fish, lobsters, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > basket bow-neta1000 leapc1000 weel1256 willow1385 pichea1398 cruive14.. creel1457 coop1469 butt1533 hive1533 wilger1542 fish-pota1555 pota1555 loup1581 leap weel1601 willy1602 putt1610 leap-head1611 weir1611 putcher1781 fish-coop1803 fishing box1861 crib1873 1457 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1597) §87 That na man in smolt time set veschelles, creilles, weires, or ony vther ingine to let the smoltes to goe to the Sea. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 7 No person shal take in any lepe, hiue, crele..fier, or any other engine..the yonge frie..of any kinde of salmon. c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Bvv The peple makis ane lang mand narow halsit and wyid mouthit..als sone as the see ebbis, the fische ar tane dry in the crelis. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 42 Nocht sa mekle fishe thay with nettis, as with skepis, or long kreilis, win with wickeris in the forme of a hose. 1758 R. Griffiths Descr. Thames 111 With any Nets, Trammel, Keep, Wore, Creel, or other Device. 1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 403 Catching fish in long crails, made with canes and hiccory splinters, tapering to a point. 3. to coup the creels: in various figurative uses; to fall or tumble over; ‘to tumble heels over head, to die’ (Jamieson); to meet with a mishap. in a creel: in a state of temporary mental aberration. ΚΠ 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 20 When he was Strute, twa sturdy Chiels..Held up frae cowping o' the Creels The liquid Logick Schollar. 1786 R. Burns Poems 209 My senses wad be in a creel, Should I but dare a hope to speel, Wi' Allan, or wi' Gilbertfield. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 137 ‘The laddie's in a creel!’ exclaimed his uncle. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. vii. 150 If folk..wad needs be couping the creels ower through-stanes. a1835 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches III. 206 If you should..coup the creels just now..it would be out of the power of man to get you to a Christian burial. 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold I. xvii. 257 ‘The lassie's head's in a creel,’ cried Susan. Compounds C1. General attributive. creel-hawking n. Π 1865 J. G. Bertram Harvest of Sea x. 436 The system..followed by the fishwives in the old days of creel-hawking. creel-like adj. Π 1638–9 in Maidment Sc. Pasquils (1868) 66 He..creel lyke lives in the fyre of contentione. creel-pig n. Π 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Creel-pig, a young pig, such as is taken to market in a creel or basket. C2. creel-house n. a house or hut with the walls made of wickerwork covered with clay. Π 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Creel-house, a wicker hut with a sodded roof. 1878 J. Mackintosh Hist. Civilization Scotl. I. Introd. 134 Till recently crell houses were used in some parts of the Highlands. creel-man n. a man who transports goods in creels. Π 1883 J. Beath Bishopshire Lilts 14 Stridelegs on the creelman's ass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). creeln.2 1. A framework, varying in form according to its purpose (see quots.). (Cf. cratch n.1 4.) ΘΠ the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > frame or rack flakec1420 creel1788 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > a structure machine1545 framework1578 compact1600 fabrication1602 machination1605 compound1607 structure1612 compilement1624 fabric1633 contignation1635 artifice1700 mechanism1712 creel1788 composition1793 arrangement1800 1788 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 228 The feet of the sheep being bound, it is laid upon a bier—provincially, a ‘creel’. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 324 Creel, a kind of bier, used for slaughtering and salving sheep upon. a1861 J. Hunter MS Gloss. in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (1888) 54 Creel, a light frame-work placed overhead in the kitchen or other room of an ordinary farmhouse, on which oatcakes are placed. [So 1883 in T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield.] 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Creel..a barred stool on which sheep are salved and clipped, pigs are killed, etc. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Creel., a plate-rack..a food-rack for sheep; a butcher's hand-barrow. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Creel, a wooden rack in which plates are put to dry. A frame in which glaziers carry glass. 2. a. Spinning. A frame for holding the paying-off bobbins in the process of converting the ‘sliver’ into ‘roving’, or the latter into yarn. Hence also creel-frame. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > parts of knave1564 porcupine roller1776 catch box1809 jack-frame1814 Jack-in-the-box1814 flyer frame1825 sneck1825 thread-wire1825 creel1835 fly-frame1835 self-actor1835 trumpet-mouth1835 counter-faller1836 Jack1875 trumpet1877 back-shaft1879 builder1884 pot-eye1884 twizzle1884 rice creel1895 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 225 The roller-pair..receives the fine rovings from bobbins placed on skewers or upright pins in the creel behind. 1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. vii**/1 The bobbins..are placed in a wooden frame called a ‘creel’, so that they will revolve. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 209/1 The rove creels..stand about six or seven feet high. b. (See quot. 1869) northern dialect. ΚΠ 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Creel, a frame to wind yarn upon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). creelv. 1. Scottish. To put into a creel; also figurative. ΚΠ 1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados iv. Prol. 32 Men sayis thou brydillit Aristotell, as ane hors And crelit vp the floure af Poetry. 1808–79 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Creil, to put into a basket..‘He's no gude to creel eggs wi',’ i.e. not easy, or safe, to deal with. 2. Angling. To get (a fish) into the basket; to succeed in catching. Cf. ‘to bag game’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > bring to bank landa1609 play1740 work1825 bank1837 creel1844 grass1856 to bring (a hooked fish) to gaff1886 to play along1921 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. v. 119 I creeled him, and tried again. 1892 Field 18 June 922/3 My friend..creeled nearly twice as many trout. 3. Scottish. In certain marriage customs: To make (a newly married man) go through some ceremony with a creel; esp. to make him carry a creel filled with stones, till his wife releases him. Cf. Brand Pop. Antiq. (1870) II. 55. ΚΠ 1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 80 The second day after the Marriage a Creeling, as it is called, takes place. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. 59 All the men who have been married within the last 12 months are creeled. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. 263 An ancient..local usage called creeling is still kept up here. 1890 Glasgow Times 3 Nov. 3/4 A miner..having got married..his fellow-colliers..went through the process of creeling him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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