creel

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Northern Middle English crele, possibly from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin crāticula.

1. A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.

   “Return with a creel of trout for supper.”

   “Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh, Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers”

2. A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
3. A woven basket, especially a wicker basket.
4. A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

verb

Etymology: Unclear. The English Dialect Dictionary has cites of a British dialectal verb creel "crouch, bend the body" from 1897.

1. To wrench or sprain.

   “For aught that appears in the record, plaintiff's fall was due entirely to the fact that his foot "creeled," and no one can say that his injuries were not due to the fall, but to the fact that he rolled down the embankment. […] he stepped around, and in doing so "creeled his foot in some way" and fell down the embankment, […]”

   “[…] a "creeled foot " strapped to relieve strained muscles, […]”