from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A piece of absorbent cloth or paper used for wiping or drying.
intransitive verb To wipe or rub dry with a towel.
intransitive verb To dry oneself with a towel.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun Same as tewel.
To rub or wipe with a towel.
To cudgel; lam.
To use a towel; rub or wipe with a towel.
noun A cloth used for wiping anything dry; especially, a cloth for drying the person after bathing or washing.
noun Eccles.:
noun The rich covering of silk and gold which used to be laid over the top of the altar except during mass.
noun A linen altarcloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
noun (Bot.) the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa Ægyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath sponge, and dishcloth.
transitive verb Prov. Eng. To beat with a stick.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.
verb To hit with a towel.
verb To dry by using a towel.
verb UK, dialect, obsolete To beat with a stick.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb wipe with a towel
noun a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English towaille, from Old French toaille, of Germanic origin.]
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From Middle English towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille ("towel") (Modern French touaille), from Frankish *þwahila (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahilō (“wash-cloth", literally, "something used for washing”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahanan (“to wash”), from Proto-Indo-European *tʷak- (“to bathe”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila ("towel") (Modern German dialectal Zwehle), Dutch dwaal ("towel"), dweil ("mop"), Old English þwēan ("to wash").
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Examples
If you can manage with _one towel_ by washing it every day, or evening, allowing it to dry during the night, one towel will be sufficient; leave the others at home.
Many observers had expected Button to throw in his title towel and concentrate on supporting McLaren team-mate and fellow Briton Lewis Hamilton after finishing only a disappointing 12th in last Sunday's Korean Grand Prix.
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His opponent, a Swedish veteran, age 33, rank 49, stares after the ball, at the line, into the linesman's eyes, at 264, and then shakes his head, snatching a towel from a ball boy and wiping cascades of sweat from his arms.
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