释义 |
creelcreel /kriːl/ noun [countable] creelOrigin: 1300-1400 Probably from an unrecorded Old French creille ‘grill’, from Latin craticula; ➔ GRILL2 - George whipped the trousers off the table and placed them on a hanger which he attached to a wooden creel.
- Hooking a fish and letting it suffocate in a creel is seemingly acceptable to all fishermen and many other people.
- The seals have been robbing the creels blind.
- When he was fifty yards down the path he remembered the trousers still on the creel.
a fisherman’s basket for carrying fish |