Definitions for toweling

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toweling tow·el·ing

Spelling: [tou-uh-ling, tou-ling]

IPA: /ˈtaʊ ə lɪŋ, ˈtaʊ lɪŋ/

Toweling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 290 anagrams from letters in toweling (egilnotw).

Definitions for toweling

noun

1. a narrow fabric of cotton or linen, in plain, twill, or huck weave, used for hand towels or dishtowels.
2. an absorbent cloth or paper for wiping and drying something wet, as one for the hands, face, or body after washing or bathing.

Idioms

1. throw in the towel, Informal. to concede defeat; give up; yield:

verb (used with object)

1. to wipe or dry with a towel.

Origin of toweling

First recorded in 1575-85; towel + -ing¹

Examples for toweling

We know it is used for dresses, and sometimes for toweling and upholstery uses.

Get three yards or so of toweling and cut off pieces as you need them.

It is used for toweling and costs about 30 cents per yard, 24 inches wide.

The table linen and toweling would be both spun and woven by her hands.

At my exclamation one of the Halbersons left off toweling and came over to join me.

As might have been expected, military and naval subjects occupy a large place among the year's designs for toweling.

The end of the toweling entwined itself about one of the dining-tables and held there.

She never finishes her soup and she wears a toweling robe with a certain je ne sais quoi.

The largest portion of the sheeting and toweling is made in Scotland.

A dozen kinds of cloth, from woolen and linen to bedticking and toweling, were woven on the premises.