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Examples
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This is a jotting, reduced by reproduction, of a native fishing in the surf -- all that I have "creeled" to-day.
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When you creeled twisters, you had to tie the string from the bobbin up over the thing.
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I wound down there and creeled a warper for about a year.
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So I used a knotter, and when I creeled warpers, I had to use a knotter.
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I creeled anywhere from seventeen to eighteen hundred cones a day.
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I creeled anywhere from seventeen to eighteen hundred cones a day.
Oral History Interview with Icy Norman, 1979 April 6 and 30. Interview H-36. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Icy Norman Icy Norman 1979
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I caked (?) line and combed (coned?) and creeled, cleaned up the bad yarn, just anything they wanted me to do.
Oral History Interview with Emma Whitesell, 1977 July 27. Interview H-57. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Emma Whitesell Emma Whitesell 1977
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I caked [unknown] line and combed (coned?) and creeled, cleaned up the bad yarn, just anything they wanted me to do.
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"If I ha'e to be creeled, I'll be creeled right, an 'every one o' ye'll gang hame wi 'me afore ye get a taste."
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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He walked to the end of the village, knowing the colliery would be idle, for Tam Donaldson was to be "creeled."
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh
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