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TOWELLING
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels
Synonyms:
toweling; towelling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("towelling" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "towelling"):
huck; huckaback (toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric)
terry; terry cloth; terrycloth (a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb towel
