Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To place (fish) in a creel.
A woven basket, especially a wicker basket. · An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish. · 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. · Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.
Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.
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