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Creel vs Crenel - What's the difference?

creel | crenel |

As nouns the difference between creel and crenel

is that creel is an osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish while crenel is the space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.

creel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * creeler

    crenel

    English

    Alternative forms

    *crenelle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
  • *2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 44:
  • *:They would wake Lord Bolton and search Harrenhal from crenel to cellar, and when they did they would find the map and the dagger missing […].