Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various fabrics of cotton or linen used for making towels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Material used for towels, whether made in separate to wels with borders, etc., or in continuous pieces, sold by the yard. Compare huckaback, crash, diaper, glass-cloth.
- noun A piece of the stuff used for towels; a towel.
- noun A whipping; a thrashing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
fabric suitable fortowels , such ashuckaback orterry cloth . - verb Present participle of
towel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels
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Examples
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Their role will include extra duties such as toweling seats dry before the
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If you have several items of approximately the same size — such as file folders or books — you can place them upright in a milk crate or box, separated with paper toweling, butcher paper or wax paper.
Save Water-Damaged Books, Docs By Putting Them In The Freezer | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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But Tom Randle's shell-shocked Ulysses, showering away the gore, then toweling and dressing himself in real time whereupon he recovers his mojo, is some kind of a first.
Mirror-Image Operas Enjoy Identical Good Results Paul Levy 2011
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When she was toweling dry, she picked up the pace, briskly drying her hair, then, back in her robe, she applied the mascara and lip gloss that were her only makeup.
'I'll Walk Alone' 2011
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The idea struck me as I was toweling off after a swim: what would happen if I crossed the Mercedes-Benz and Grignani logos from my February 2009 blog post, Exploring Logo Designs with Mathematica?
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There are a period of wildly inappropriate hats in the 70s that perhaps led to the notion that all hats are silly (and the mere existence of the toweling hat suggests a sort of nadir was reached).
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Well, I was toweling off one morning, and I was reminded of this by the "Terry-Cloth" towel that I was using.
Messages to Mars Hugh Barlow 2011
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Theodore has never been to this particular store, although often buys his cheese and paper toweling from another branch on the east side of town.
The Crossing Timmothy Merath 2011
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After toweling off and combing my hair, I slipped into the red velvet nightgown I'd purchased for Trent's homecoming and looked myself over in the mirror.
Home for the Holidays Jennifer L. Lopez 2011
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The idea struck me as I was toweling off after a swim: what would happen if I crossed the Mercedes-Benz and Grignani logos from my February 2009 blog post, Exploring Logo Designs with Mathematica?
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