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Answer for the clue "Dry (off) ", 5 letters:
towel

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Word definitions for towel in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping [also: towelling , towelled ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from Old French toaille (12c.), from Frankish *thwahlja , from Proto-Germanic *thwahlijan (cognates: Old Saxon thwahila , Middle Dutch dwale "towel," Dutch dwaal "altar cloth," Old High German dwehila "towel," German dialectal Zwehle "napkin"); ...

Usage examples of towel.

But the spell breaks, the cut is plunged into the aerated stream of her Puraflo faucet, the finger wrapped in a floral blue paper towel.

Taking the towel as Amine left to hang her clothes, Christina rubbed her body down vigorously.

She smiled and looked up at Ashe, who was kicking trie towel he had dropped on the floor under the bed.

The bathers reappeared on the grass-ridge, racing and flapping wet towels.

The colonel had been one of the bathers, and he stood like a circus-driver flicking a wet towel at Crossjay capering.

He took a step toward me, and I backed up abruptly, aware belatedly that I was clutching the towel to my bosom as though it were a shield.

Sarah finished washing Biffin the sink and, wrapping him in a towel, gave him to Olivia to hold while she fetched his pyjamas from the stove.

When she got back to couch, the towel came again into requisition, and she wiped herself all over in such a manner that all her charms were revealed to my eager eyes.

Nobody she said, the paper towel knotted tight in her hand, turning for the harsh chromo of boats on green water.

He was dried on towels of fine linen, perfumed with chypre and dressed in saffron-dyed linen breeches and a long tunic.

The mess hall still had a dozen or so crewmen in it as Cutler spread out the towel she had brought to cushion the sound of the bolts on the hard tabletop.

She looked at Dari for a moment, then walked to the privy room to collect dirty towels.

Mirri came and went, restocking towels and humming a sappy tune, and she gave Dari a cheerful wave as she carried out the last of the used linen.

When I had left the bath, she wiped me with towels, put on my shirt, and then in the same state--that is, quite naked, she did my hair.

Shegrabbed the towel from the rack and wrapped it around herself, the end neatly 147 likRita Clay Estrada tucked into the top.