What's the difference between creel and crewel?

Creel


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A morphometric study has been made of the alpha-sector (Giolli and Creel 1973) of the guinea pig's dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) in Nissl preparations.
  • (2) Creel, Witkop, and King have used evoked potential methods to show that such a pathway defect likely occurs in the human albino.
  • (3) Anatomical studies of the Creel albino cat have demonstrated a pronounced atrophy of cells in the medial superior olive, a structure thought to be important for the detection of interaural time differences (ITDs).

Crewel


Definition:

  • (n.) Worsted yarn,, slackly twisted, used for embroidery.

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