tea cloth BrE
tea towel BrE
dish towel AmE
dishtowel AmE

He took the tea cloth from her and embarked upon the forks.

You can get them little hooks like I hang my tea cloths on.

It's the most hideous tea cloth you've ever seen.

His glance fell on the box in her arms; the tea cloth was heaving dangerously.

They worked silently together, and when the last plate was washed Alice threw the tea cloth down by the sink.

The old woman handed me a towel the size of a tea cloth and a set of what had once been white sheets.

Her husband came, drying his hands on a tea cloth, the black dog cowering at his heels.

Groom these ticklish areas with a stable rubber, tea cloth or your hand and work at it gently.

Mrs Files picked up a tea cloth, buried her face in it, laughing, then shook it at him with delighted outrage.

"This then," decided Deborah, picking out an exquisitely embroidered tea cloth "Aren't they gorgeous?

And antique table runners, tea cloths and pillow shams conceal the tops of bureaus and tables.

Bardsley untied his apron and hung up the tea cloth that, appropriately enough in this flat, was a large linen facsimile of a pound note.

'Well, next mornin' at sunrise I'm in the kitchen garden 'anging out the tea cloths like I always does first thing.

Out they come, tea cloths, too, with lace-edged napkins, and placemats with matching napkins and a runner for the center of the table.

Tea cloth (茶巾, chakin)

Antique linen pillow shams, tea cloths from England and bedspreads can also be found at Cherchez, 862 Lexington Avenue, near 64th Street; 212-737-8215.

Burden left him contemplating the printed tea cloth as if, were it possible to transmute it to paper, reduce its size and multiply it manifold, he would be a happy man.

Lorinda Pike, on that sleety December afternoon, was darning a tea cloth in the lounge of her Beulah Valley Tavern, five miles up the river from the Fort.

So does Senzeni Marasela, whose images of Stompe Seipie, the schoolboy whose killing ignited anti-apartheid resistance, are printed on tea cloths.

Lady Cres swell spent a long time wandering from embroidered tea cloths to pottery, from carved wooden boxes to knitted jackets and shawls, before she decided to buy something of everything.

With a tea cloth around her hand she opened up the oven and took out the mince pies and sausage rolls, placing them on the top of the stove to cool as she put the turkey in to cook.

Once relegated to thrift shops and garage sales, vintage linens of every description, from drawnwork Victorian tea cloths to funky Depression-era printed cotton tablecloths, have become standard issue at auctions in the United States and abroad.

The combination of elements may be as simple as a man, a woman and a can of bug spray or as elaborate as a parlor game that involves an orange, an apple, a tea cloth, a spoon and the entire cast of six.

My gaze lingered on a shop windo,,N containing a scattering of household goods - embroidered tea cloths, a set of ju,-,, and glasses, a stack of homely pie tins and a set of threc vases.

In a second-floor bedroom that she has converted to her studio, Ms. Liley has suspended old window screens horizontally from the ceiling and draped them with tea cloths for drying flowers, herbs and grasses to use in the decorative arrangements and wreaths she gives to friends.

Is that all you've got on the line, one tea towel?

I hope he hasn't got his tea towel with him!

Cover with the tea towel and leave at room temperature for 1 hour.

Use a clean tea towel that you are willing to part with.

Cover the bowl with a tea towel and set aside 15 minutes.

Picking up a tea towel she held it to her eye.

Leave the pieces on your work surface and cover them with a tea towel.

Cover with a tea towel, and leave to rise in a warm place for one hour.

She picked up the tea towel and dried her hands.

Cool for 5 minutes then cover with a damp tea towel.

Cover with a clean, damp tea towel until ready to use.

Then put the dough back in the bowl and cover with a tea towel.

Or a tea towel with a map of Ireland on it?

He flung the damp tea towel on to the table.

"But she said the old one scorched the tea towels!"

I put the revolver in the drawer with the tea towels.

She picked up a tea towel and began drying glasses.

Then, you cover the tray with a tea towel and each person writes down all they can remember.

A tea towel was draped over the back of a wooden chair.

Place a tea towel over the pan holding the fish and hot liquid.

You either win a tea towel or a bag.

Cain ran hot water and the priest found a tea towel.

Cover loosely with foil and a couple of dry tea towels.

Cover the bowl with a tea towel and leave until the mixture is double in size, about 1 hours.

Wexford went into the kitchen and picked up a tea towel.

She came to the door with a dish towel in her hand.

Today, it was the dish towel she'd brought with her.

He dried them on a dish towel, then turned to me.

She came out of the back door with a dish towel still wrapped around one hand.

The dish towel surprised him because he was certain the police would not have left it here.

I turned to her, drying my hands on a dish towel.

He found the drawer in which the dead woman had kept her dish towels.

Squeeze out in a dish towel once more, until very dry.

The second wave came as she was hanging up the dish towel.

There's probably a clean dish towel I could find that would keep the dirt out.

She turned and threw a wet dish towel at my head.

She threw the dish towel across the chair and went down the steps.

Then the good news: "You should receive 36 dish towels."

She came back to the table drying them on a yellow dish towel I had never seen before.

It was full almost to the top with the same bright red paint that had been on the dish towel.

I dried off my hands and folded the dish towel.

Turn it out, cooked side up, onto a clean dish towel.

Catch any water that spills out with the dish towel.

Wrap in a dish towel and refrigerate until ready to use.

Wiping her hands on a dish towel, she hurried toward the front door.

He put the dish towel on the drainboard and went to the living room.

I was still drying my hands and used the dish towel to open the drawers.

I soaked a dish towel and put it on her forehead until she came around.

She stood over by the sink, twisting a dish towel in her hands.

Form each piece into a ball, and keep covered with a damp dish towel.