Crossword-Solution: CREEL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Creel | n. | An osier basket, such as anglers use. |
| Creel | n. | A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CREEL | anagram | CELER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CREEL (5)
However, when he had eaten all he began to drink hot liquors in great abundance, so that in a short time he could not hold up his head, but threw himself on a large creel he had made for the purpose, and fell fast asleep.
She says you are the only one who can get at the bottom of the puzzling case.” In spite of himself the colonel's face lighted up at the words “puzzling case,” but as his eyes fell on the creel containing his fish he turned aside.
For the rest of that day you are bewitched; you follow a stream that runs through the country of Auld Lang Syne, and fill your creel with the recollections of a boy and a rod.
Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh, Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers, The spirit of traffic watchful in her eye, Ever and anon imploring you to buy, As looking down the street she onward lingers, Reproachful, with a strange and doleful cry.
The whole description is figurative, as Plato himself implies when he speaks of a ‘fountain of fire which we compare to the network of a creel.’ He really means by this what we should describe as a state of heat or temperature in the interior of the body.
Quotes with CREEL (1)
... graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 154 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).