[f. CREEL sb.2 + -ER1.] A young person who attends to the creel of a spinning machine.

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1864.  R. A. Arnold, Cotton Famine, 32. A minder and a creeler—engaged in manufacturing with a self-acting mule.

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1882.  Manchester Guardian, 19 May. The relationship between spinners and their creelers and piecers.

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