different between crewel vs creel

English

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• cruel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?u?.?l/, /?k?u?l/
• Homophone: cruel

Noun

crewel (countable and uncountable, plural crewels)

1. Worsted yarn, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

Translations

Verb

crewel (third-person singular simple present crewels, present participle crewelling or (US) creweling, simple past and past participle crewelled or (US) creweled)

1. (transitive) To make (embroidery) using the crewel method.

Middle English

Adjective

crewel

1. Alternative form of cruel

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English crele, from an Old French root *creille, variant of greille (compare French grille), from Latin cr?ticula. The English word may also have been of Scottish origin originally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i?l/
• Rhymes: -i?l

Noun

creel (plural creels)

1. (fishing) An osier basket, such as anglers use to hold fish.
2. A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

Derived terms

• creeler

Translations

Verb

creel (third-person singular simple present creels, present participle creeling, simple past and past participle creeled)

1. (transitive) To place (fish) in a creel.

Anagrams

• cleer