"cloth rag" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a small piece of cloth that is used for cleaning or wiping surfaces. Example: The mechanic wiped his oily hands on a cloth rag before reaching for a new tool.
I couldn't spray, but I got rid of the bamboo by soaking a terry cloth rag with Roundup, a herbicide, and while wearing rubber gloves, wiped the foliage.
* To clean an overhead bypass door track, spray household cleaner on a terry cloth rag, wrap the rag around the tip of a screwdriver and rub the padded tip along the track.
After about three minutes the toilet was wiped with a cloth rag that had been wet with the same cleaning agent.
Products included: water alone, soap, a cloth rag or a sponge, herbs or flowers taken directly from the land, traditional medicines given by traditional healers, vinegar, salt, beer and yogurt.
Among different products used in the prior month, water had been used by 118 (92.2%) women, soap by 88 (68.7%), a cloth, rag or sponge by 68 (53.1%), traditional medicines by 34 (26.5%), and herbs and flowers from outdoors by 24 (18.7%) women.
Mix with sponge or cloth rag.
The production cycle of goods was also different from today, functioning as more of a closed loop, within which merchants and peddlers didn't just sell goods, they reclaimed what the family couldn't reuse — scraps of metal, cloth rags, bits of glass — and turned them into new goods.
One possible cause was people flushing cloth rags or non-biodegradable material that could cause a blockage, said Larry Honeybourne of the Orange County Health Care Agency.
Products like baby wipes, moist towelettes, bidets, and sustainable cloth rags "have had a hard time finding a niche because nobody wants to describe what they're for," said Molotch.
I can vividly remember going to the car wash with my mom or dad, more than fifty years ago, experiencing the thrill of watching our car through a foggy window get pulled along by chains, alternatively sprayed by soapy water and smacked by large cloth rags hung from the ceiling.
In addition, poverty and preference for cheap fuel materials were mentioned as factors contributing to the use of alternative fuels such as plastic bags, gunny bags, and cloth rags, especially among roadside food vendors in Korogocho, and as such, contributing to air pollution.
