creeln.1
/kriːl/, U.S. /kril/ 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.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > baskets borne by persons or beasts of burden
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panniera1656
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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.
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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.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > basket
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1638–9 in Maidment Sc. Pasquils (1868) 66 He..creel lyke lives in the fyre of contentione.
creel-pig n.
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1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Creel-pig, a young pig, such as is taken to market in a creel or basket.
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creel-house n. a house or hut with the walls made of wickerwork covered with clay.
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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.
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1883 J. Beath Bishopshire Lilts 14 Stridelegs on the creelman's ass.
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creeln.2
/kriːl/, U.S. /kril/ 1. A framework, varying in form according to its purpose (see quots.). (Cf. cratch n.1 4.)
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > frame or rack
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > a structure
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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.
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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.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > parts of
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Jack-in-the-box1814
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Jack1875
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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.
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1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Creel, a frame to wind yarn upon.
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creelv.
/kriːl/, U.S. /kril/ 1. Scottish. To put into a creel; also figurative.
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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’.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > bring to bank
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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.
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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.
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