Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition

(krēl)

Noun.

[Gael.

craidhleag

basket, creel.]

An osier basket, such as anglers use.

Sir W. Scott.

(Spinning)

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

A fishwife with a creel and a basket

creel ‎(plural creels)

(fishing) An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.
- 1897, William Henley, In Fisherrow:
  
  Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh,
  
  Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers
A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

basket