towel
/ˈtaʊ̯əl/ noun A1- 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.
Plural towels
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Anne rose to her feet, with clasped hands, the tears still glistening on her cheeks; the dish towel she had been hemming slipped unheeded to the floor.
“With pleasure,” she answered, and brought a towel at once.
Then the Tin Woodman wept for several minutes, and she watched the tears carefully and wiped them away with the towel.
One towel passed round the throat and was secured at the back of the pillar.
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