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creelful

creelful noun: the amount that fills a creel.

Noun

creelful (plural creelfuls or creelsful)

  1. The amount that fills a creel.
    • Of courſe, a Scots acre ſhould produce about 1653 creelfuls, weighing about 44 tons 12 cwt., which, according to the above opinion of kelpers, would produce about 1 ton and 14 cwt. of kelp of 21 cwt. per ton, which is about 13 cwt. more p. acre than the reſult of the above manufacture.1807 February, D., “On the Cultivation of Kelp”, in The Farmer’s Magazine: A Periodical Work, Exclusively Devoted to Agriculture and Rural Affairs, volume VIII, number XXIX, Edinburgh: […] D[avid]...
    • The wives of the Newhaven fishermen carry the fish caught by their husbands to Edinburgh, a distance of about two miles, in wicker baskets, or creels, on their shoulders and hawk them about the streets to the musical refrain of “Caller Haddies;” at night the fisher girls go about with creelsful of...1862 October 1, “Art[icle] II.—The British Sea-Fisheries.”, in The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, volume XXII, number II, London: Trübner & Co., […], footnote, page 325

Examples of creelful in a sentence

  • He’s luring the salmon to rise at the fly, / He’s catching the trout by the creelful; / He’s shooting the pheasant to put in the pie, / And of wild-duck he’s getting a mealful.1884 August 9, “The Member’s Nightmare”, in Vanity Fair: A Weekly Show of Political, Social, & Literary Wares, volume XXXII, London, page...
  • Then creelfuls of darker peat, broken smaller, were just piled inside.2014, Ian Stephen, “Torcuil’s Olman”, in A Book of Death and Fish, Glasgow: Saraband, →ISBN, book 1 (Migrations), page 55:

Forms of creelful

pluralcreelfuls
pluralcreelsful

Origin of creelful

From creel + -ful.

Questions about creelful

What does creelful mean?
Creelful means the amount that fills a creel.
How do you use creelful in a sentence?
He’s luring the salmon to rise at the fly, / He’s catching the trout by the creelful; / He’s shooting the pheasant to put in the pie, / And of wild-duck he’s getting a mealful.
What part of speech is creelful?
Creelful is a noun.
What is the plural of creelful?
The plural of creelful is creelfuls.

Words near creelful in the dictionary

  1. creel
  2. Creel Bay
  3. creeled
  4. creeler
  5. creelers
  6. creelful
  7. creelfuls
  8. creeling
  9. creelman
  10. Creelmans
  11. creelmen

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