TOWELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does towelling mean? 

• TOWELLING (noun)
  The noun TOWELLING has 1 sense:

1. any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels

  Familiarity information: TOWELLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOWELLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

toweling; towelling

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)