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creel

[kreel] / kril /




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Oban in Argyll also builds a creel tree as part of the town's winter festival.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2025

Entanglements can involve creel fishing gear or ghost gear - rope and nets that have been lost or abandoned by fishing boats.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2025

The creel fishermen had been working further south when they received a report of the entangled whale.

From BBC Mar. 4, 2025

Mark Elder, 26, from Thurso, died when his leg became caught in a rope on the creel boat he was working on and he was pulled overboard.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2023

I galloped down the hall into the library with a fishing creel over my shoulder.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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