towelling

IPA: tˈaʊʌɫɪŋ

(countable, uncountable) Any fabric suitable for towels, such as huckaback or terry cloth.
(countable) A thrashing.

Examples of "towelling" in Sentences

Even the terry towelling hats are making a comeback.
Catty - Good woman. oh and I love a good terry towelling hat; they look kind of cool.
Mine was a kind of towelling bath-robe that I had bought in France when I lost my kit.
He's got a mouth full of paper towelling, and a promise from you to shoot him in the face if he so much as makes a sound.
Janey's had loads of babies, put them in towelling nappies and breast fed them all and so have I, plus we also have our laundry balls in common.
There's nothing suckier than going outside after swimming with that slightly damp feeling that no amount of towelling and drying seems to get rid of into -30 weather.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, on track to meet Andy Murray in the quarters, looked right at the top of his game beating Frederico Gil – who was so bedazzed he wasn't quite sure it was over at the end of a 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 tennis lesson, towelling himself down before belatedly going to the net to shake the winner's hand.
The celeb loses loads of weight, most of their marbles and begins swanning into the BBC Television Centre wearing lilac Pineapple Dance Studio leg warmers and a towelling headband mumbling about "knowing my value on the Strictly tour" and "being pushed to new levels of joy" – which could mean "on the dancefloor" but we all secretly hope means "in the Novotel adjacent to the west London flyover with their mobile phone switched off."