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Definition towel

Etymology

From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), from Frankish *thwahila (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahil? (“wash-cloth”, literally “something used for washing”), from *þwahan? (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þw?le (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þw?an (“to wash”).

Noun

towel (plural towels)

1. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.

Verb

towel (third-person singular simple present towels, present participle toweling or towelling, simple past and past participle toweled or towelled)

1. (transitive) To hit with a towel.
2. (transitive) To dry by using a towel.
3. (transitive) To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
4. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To beat with a stick.

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