A short dictionary entry from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary defining the creel in spinning. It describes the creel as the bar or frame holding the paying-off bobbins on the bobbin-and-fly frame, throstle, or mule, and explains how it feeds sliver or roving. A figure (Fig. 1513) shows a side view of the creel of a mule, with vertical bars carrying skewers and bobbins.