towel
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
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- 9
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Definition of towel
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.
“He needed a towel for wiping the slippery floor.”
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noun
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A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.
“He needed a towel for wiping the slippery floor.”
verb
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(transitive)To dry by using a towel.
“He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.”
- (transitive)To hit with a towel.
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(transitive)To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
“We would open the windows, towel the door, and turn my bedroom into an Allman Brothers concert.”
- (UK, dialectal, obsolete, transitive)To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahaną (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þwǣle (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þwēan (“to wash”).
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