Definitions for cloth

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cloth cloth

Spelling: [klawth, kloth]

IPA: /klɔθ, klɒθ/

Cloth is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in cloth (chlot).

Definitions for cloth

noun

1. a fabric formed by weaving, felting, etc., from wool, hair, silk, flax, cotton, or other fiber, used for garments, upholstery, and many other items.
2. a piece of such a fabric for a particular purpose:
3. the particular attire of any profession, especially that of the clergy. Compare man of the cloth.
4. the cloth, the clergy:
5. Nautical. one of the lengths of canvas or duck of standard width sewn side by side to form a sail, awning, or tarpaulin. any of various pieces of canvas or duck for reinforcing certain areas of a sail. a number of sails taken as a whole.
6. Obsolete. a garment; clothing.

adjective

1. of or made of cloth:
2. clothbound.

Origin of cloth

before 900; Middle English cloth, clath cloth, garment, Old English clāth; cognate with Dutch kleed, German Kleid

Examples for cloth

No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil.

The piece of cloth picked up in Greenwich was in his pocket.

The wood and cloth will be the two largest items, and these should not cost more than $10.

The table was covered with a cloth as white and spotless as good linen can well be.

Paper and cloth are cheap, what people are paying for is the story.

Novelty aside, the real question is whether these avowedly chaste men of the cloth are listening.

My nostrils have smelt the horrors of the (cloth) diaper pail.

The framework is to be covered with cloth in the same manner as the planes.

Instead, Ernst is seen as a “likable, relatable person” who is cut “from the cloth of small-town Iowa.”

Here's the cloth an' some leads; weigh out a hundred and twelve too.