Creel vs Kneel - What's the difference?
creel | kneel |
(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.
(lb) To stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.
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As a noun creel
is (fishing) an osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.As a verb kneel is
(lb) to stoop down and rest on the knee or knees.creel
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(en noun)Derived terms
* creelerkneel
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- When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.