creeped

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With my friend George Blake I creeled the little heroes by the dozen every day for a week.

From The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle by Bradford, Charles Barker

"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."

From The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by Welsh, James C.

He walked to the end of the village, knowing the colliery would be idle, for Tam Donaldson was to be "creeled."

From The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner by Welsh, James C.

Here we set up our rods: the first seething pool yielded a brace, besides false rises, and in half an hoar we had "creeled" several and began to hope for better things.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

This is a jotting, reduced by reproduction, of a native fishing in the surf—all that I have "creeled" to-day.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)