TOWELLING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

toweling; towelling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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)

-ing form of the verb towel