Crossword clues for dishcloth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Towel \Tow"el\, n. [OE. towaille, towail, F. touaille, LL. toacula, of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. dwahila, swahilla, G. zwehle, fr. OHG. dwahan to wash; akin to D. dwaal a towel, AS. [thorn]we['a]n to wash, OS. thwahan, Icel. [thorn]v[=a], Sw. tv[*a], Dan. toe, Goth. [thorn]wahan. Cf. Doily.] A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
Towel gourd (Bot.), the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa [AE]gyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath sponge, and dishcloth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A cloth used to wash dishes 2 A cloth used to dry dishes
WordNet
n. a cloth for washing dishes [syn: dishrag]
Wikipedia
A dishcloth is used in the kitchen to clean dishes and other surfaces. Typically they are made of cotton or other cloth, such as microfiber, and measure 11" to 13" inches square.
Usage examples of "dishcloth".
She could not simply wish a thing clean, but had to whistle a broom into an appropriately useful motion, a dustcloth into yet another, and the dishcloth, ladles, spits, polishing rags, and so on, each into its own movement.
I did indeed I says and I gave him the thumbs up have a good stay in Bundoran he says I will indeed I called after him the wind was blowing I went into a shop and bought some fags I went down to the beach and smoked a few the sea was dirty and grey like a dishcloth there was a few boats I think there was three I smoked another fag some of the fags I just smoked half of them the others I smoked them all.
Formica tables broken at the corners, showing the strawboard below greasy with spilled coffee and dirty dishcloths.
An extra set of clean dishcloths from the cookshack covered the bedroll that had been called into use as a mattress, and two more bedrolls served as propping pillows.
As he watched he envisioned her wielding the sword she kept in the back of the broom closet instead of the dishcloth she was presently carrying.
Around the distant not-star, and around Danny, an invisible and basic storm seemed to be raging, as if the very metrical structure of space were being tortured, its geodesics twisted like the strands in a dishcloth.