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Spell Bee Word: Cloth


What does cloth mean?

Word: Cloth

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Cloth means material made by weaving threads of cotton, wool or silk. It is used to make clothes, curtains and bags.

How do you spell cloth?

Syllables: cloth

Tricky part: Cloth has no e at the end. Clothes, with e and s, means the things you wear.

Watch out for: clooth, cloath

Memory tip: One cloth, no e: only clothes, the things you wear, take an e and an s.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. cut your coat according to your cloth: To spend only as much as you have. Example: "Papa said we must cut our coat according to our cloth, so we bought the smaller bicycle."

Cloth in a sentence

Example 1: Mumma wiped the table with a wet cloth.

Example 2: Dadi sewed a cushion cover from old cloth.

Example 3: Grandma wrapped the rotis in a cotton cloth.

Fun Fact

Khadi is cloth spun and woven by hand. Mahatma Gandhi asked Indians to wear it during the freedom struggle.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) needle
b) cotton
c) thread
d) kloth

Show answer

d) kloth. The first letter of cloth is c, as in cotton.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

cloth

a) scissors
b) pocket
c) button
d) fabric

Show answer

d) fabric. Fabric is another word for cloth.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tholc

a) cloth
b) lcoth
c) colth
d) clhot

Show answer

a) cloth. The o sits in the middle, between the l and the t.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

clot_

a) h
b) a
c) k
d) u

Show answer

a) h. Cloth ends with th.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Woollen cloth is made from the hair of ____.

a) sheep
b) hens
c) frogs
d) fish

Show answer

a) sheep

2. Who cuts and sews cloth to make clothes?

a) a tailor
b) a cobbler
c) a baker
d) a potter

Show answer

a) a tailor

Associated Words

handfridayrobinsuggestbike
wronghugefoodteasehyena

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Next steps

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