Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece of absorbent cloth or paper used for wiping or drying.
- v. To wipe or rub dry with a towel.
- v. To dry oneself with a towel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cloth used for wiping anything dry; especially, a cloth for drying the person after bathing or washing.
- n. Eccles.:
- n. The rich covering of silk and gold which used to be laid over the top of the altar except during mass.
- n. A linen altarcloth.
- To rub or wipe with a towel.
- To cudgel; lam.
- To use a towel; rub or wipe with a towel.
- n. Same as tewel.
Wiktionary
- n. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.
- v. To hit with a towel.
- v. To dry by using a towel.
- v. UK, dialect, obsolete To beat with a stick.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
- v. Prov. Eng. To beat with a stick.
WordNet 3.0
- v. wipe with a towel
- n. a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping
Etymologies
- 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"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English towaille, from Old French toaille, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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.”
“*pulls hunnert dollar towel outta londry baskit and puts it in warshing mashine, oblivious to GP-sized lump in towel*”
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“Michael Carrick insists Manchester United have not thrown in the title towel just yet.”
“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.”
“He grabs a crisp towel from the stack behind him and pats his face dry.”
“And it's pretty common to happen out there, during one of jakarta quakes my friend ran from the house only wrapped in towel, that's pretty embarrassing.ps. thanks for your concern in my blog.”
“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.”
“Damn, but that towel is not covering much of anything anymore.”
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“At that point you want to stop so the towel is now on the ground.”
“All they Navi need to do is to create an illusion of unacceptable casulties back on earth and the Erath media will force us to throw in towel …. unless its the media from starship troopers.”
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