Angler vs Creel - What's the difference?
angler | creel |
A person who fishes with a hook and line.
An angler fish, Lophius piscatorius .
Someone who tries to work an angle; a person who schemes or has an ulterior motive.
A thief who uses a hooked stick to steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.
(fishing) An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.
*1897 , William Henley, In Fisherrow :
*:Her great creel forehead-slung, she wanders nigh,
*:Easing the heavy strap with gnarled, brown fingers
A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.
As nouns the difference between angler and creel
is that angler is a person who fishes with a hook and line while creel is (fishing) an osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.angler
English
(wikipedia angler) (angling) (Lophius piscatorius)Noun
(en noun)- A throng of anglers lined the trout stream on opening day of trout season.
- The angler lured a smaller fish into reach with the appendage on its head.
- ''Jonas was a consummate angler when it came the company's leave policy; he had it figured so he only needed to work six months out of the year.