creel🔊

A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.

(fishing) An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.

(chiefly historical) 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.

(chiefly historical) Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.

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

To place (fish) in a creel.