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Creel sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Creel sb.2 [Perh. the same word as preceding; but evidence is wanting.]

1   1.  A framework, varying in form according to its purpose (see quots.). (Cf. CRATCH, 4.)

2 1788.  W. H. Marshall, Yorksh. (1796), II. 222. The feet of the sheep being bound, it is laid upon a bier—provincially, a ‘creel.’ Ibid., Gloss., Creel, a kind of bier, used for slaughtering and salving sheep upon.

3 1821.  J. Hunter, MS. Gloss., in Addy, Sheffield Gloss., Creel, a light frame-work placed overhead in the kitchen or other room of an ordinary farmhouse, on which oatcakes are placed.

4 [So 1883.  in Huddersf. Gloss.]

5 1869.  Lonsdale Gloss., Creel … a barred stool on which sheep are salved and clipped, pigs are killed, etc.

6 1877.  Holderness Gloss., Creel, a plate-rack … a food-rack for sheep; a butcher’s hand-barrow.

7 1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., Creel, a wooden rack in which plates are put to dry. A frame in which glaziers carry glass.

8   2.  Spinning. A frame for holding the paying-off bobbins in the process of converting the ‘sliver’ into ‘roving,’ or the latter into yarn. Hence also creel-frame.

9 1835.  Ure, Philos. Manuf., 225. The roller-pair … receives the fine rovings from bobbins placed on skewers or upright pins in the creel behind.

10 1531.  Art Jrnl. Catal. Gt. Exhib., p. vii**/1. The bobbins … are placed in a wooden frame called a ‘creel,’ so that they will revolve.

11 1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 209/1. The rove creels … stand about six or seven feet high.

12   b.  (See quot.) north. dial.

13 1869.  Lonsdale Gloss., Creel, a frame to wind yarn upon.

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