What is the meaning of Creel?

A woven basket, especially a wicker basket and especially as follows:

  1. An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.
  2. Such a basket slung as a backpack for cargo, especially in times and places with limited or nonexistent wheeled transport, as for example among peasants in mountainous regions.
    1. Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.

An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.

Such a basket slung as a backpack for cargo, especially in times and places with limited or nonexistent wheeled transport, as for example among peasants in mountainous regions.

  1. Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.

Such a basket slung on a pack animal; a pannier.

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

To place (fish) in a creel.

Source: wiktionary.org