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Creel v. 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 v. [f. CREEL sb.1]

1   1.  Sc. To put into a creel; also fig.

2 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, IV. Prol. 32. Men sayis thow bridillit Aristotle as ane hors, And crelit wp the flour of poetry.

3 1808–79.  Jamieson, Creil, to put into a basket … ‘He’s no gude to creel eggs wi’,’ i.e. not easy, or safe, to deal with.

4   2.  Angling. To get (a fish) into the basket; to succeed in catching. Cf. ‘to bag game.’

5 1844.  J. T. Hewlett, Parsons & W., v. I creeled him, and tried again.

6 1892.  Field, 18 June, 922/3. My friend … creeled nearly twice as many trout.

7   3.  Sc. In certain marriage customs: To make (a newly married man) go through some ceremony with a creel; esp. to make him carry a creel filled with stones, till his wife releases him. Cf. Brand, Pop. Antiq. (1870), II. 55.

8 1792.  Statist. Acc. Scot., II. 8. The second day after the Marriage a Creeling, as it is called, takes place.

9 1845.  New Statist. Acc. Scot., Berwicksh., 59. All the men who have been married within the last 12 months are creeled. Ibid., 263. An ancient … local usage called creeling is still kept up here.

10 1890.  Glasgow Times, 3 Nov., 3/4. A miner … having got married … his fellow-colliers … went through the process of creeling him.

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