Towel (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Towel

An oaken towel, a cudgel. To rub one down with an oaken towel; to beat or cudgel him.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Tow Row * Tower

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

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