Possible Clues:

• Have a pound to pay on bottle top and cloth
• Dish-drying cloth
• Total energy we wasted in drying cloth
• It's used in washing up a milk dispenser by the lough
• Plant leaves found drying out in kitchen - chief bottle-washer held?
• Companion of chief bottle-washer perhaps found in kitchen
• Cutlery carrier
• Cloth in a British kitchen
• Fluid feeder we left on patio ultimately getting drier
• Absorbing item