Creel

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Creel can refer to:

  • A creel is a device for holding the required number of roving spools or other supply packages of reinforcement fibers for Fiber Reinforced Plastics manufacturing. This device holds the rovings in the desired position for unwinding in continuous processes like Pultrusion and Filament Winding.
  • Creel, Chihuahua,is a small Mexican town in the Tarahuramas Sierra. It is located 278 kilometers to the east of Chihuahua City. Near Creel is the Divisadero National Park which allows the visitors to have a magnificent view of the Cooper Canyon.
  • A creel is a type of basket used in fly fishing.
  • origin unknown Scottish (1425) to pull a creel is to achieve an incredibly heroic act. Example: <That firefighter certainly ~ by saving those babies from that burning building.>
  • A creel is a wooden airer, for drying clothes, suspended by pulleys from the ceiling - normally above the kitchen fireplace or range in a traditional English home

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