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

a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping

A fine, very thin fabric, such as gauze, A soft, absorbent piece of paper used as toilet paper, a handkerchief, or a towel, In biology, an aggregate of similar cells and cell-products in a definite fabric; a histological texture of any metazoic animal_ as, muscular, nervous, cellular, fibrous, connective, or epithelial tissue; parenchymatous tissue

A pile fabric, usually woven of cotton, with uncut loops on one or both sides, used for bath towels and robes, A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings, A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper