Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - cloth

~ n 1 material used especially for making clothes  (cotton cloth) 2 a piece of cloth used to cover a table; tablecloth 3 a piece of cloth used for a particular purpose  (She rubbed at the stain with a damp cloth. | dishcloth/floorcloth etc)  (Tim grabbed a dishcloth and mopped up.) 4 the cloth literary used to mean priests in the Christian church considered as a group 5 make sth up out of whole cloth AmE informal if a story, explanation, etc is made up out of whole cloth, it is not true  (I could tell his excuse was made up out of whole cloth.)