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# creel

«creel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A wicker basket, often for carrying fish, or one carried…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (creel, creels)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) A wicker basket, often for carrying fish, or one carried on the back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creel/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a basket that someone is tricked into getting in or carrying

### examples

- The fisherman put the fish in his creel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creel/#x1)
- The brother climbed into the creel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creel/#x2)
- He carried the creel on his back up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creel/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «creel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.