Creel (kr?l), n. [Gael. craidhleag basket, creel.]

1.

An osier basket, such as anglers use.

Sir W. Scott.

2. Spinning

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

 

© Webster 1913.

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