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huckaback

NOUN
  1. toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric

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  • Briggs would be half-way through his window dressing, and Gosling, the apprentice, busy, with a chair turned down over the counter and his ears very red, trying to roll a piece of huckaback — only those who have rolled pieces of huckaback know quite how detestable huckaback is to roll — and the shop would be dusty and, perhaps, the governor about and snappy. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
  • Again, the gas permeability value is specifically controllable by varying the modified huckaback construction.
  • A range of bath, hand, bidet and, shaving towels are also available in 100% linen huckaback weave fabric, as also are laundry and shoe bags.
  • A big pot of steaming cocido, huckaback towels wrapped around the pot handles. Their Dogs Came With Them
  • The original test consisted of 29-36 huckaback type towels, each folded and stacked to a height of 10-11 inches.
  • People started to make rag or rough linen carpets in the plain cloth or huckaback techniques.
  • Linen huckaback is super absorbent yet lightweight fabric making the large bath towels perfect for travelling.
  • There were, in chief, a basin and a jug of water and a slop-pail of tin, and, further, a piece of yellow soap in a tray, a tooth-brush, a rat-tailed shaving brush, one huckaback towel, and one or two other minor articles. In the Days of the Comet
  • Made of hard-wearing half-linen twist in huckaback weave.
  • “Huck,” “huckaback,” “crash,” and other fabric terms used in this chapter are defined in the “Glossary of Fabric Terms” at the end of chapter 14. HOME COMFORTS
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