How To Use Huckaback In A Sentence
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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
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Again, the gas permeability value is specifically controllable by varying the modified huckaback construction.
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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.
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A big pot of steaming cocido, huckaback towels wrapped around the pot handles.
Their Dogs Came With Them
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The original test consisted of 29-36 huckaback type towels, each folded and stacked to a height of 10-11 inches.
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People started to make rag or rough linen carpets in the plain cloth or huckaback techniques.
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Linen huckaback is super absorbent yet lightweight fabric making the large bath towels perfect for travelling.
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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
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Made of hard-wearing half-linen twist in huckaback weave.
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“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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Cotton towels, too, come in crash or huckaback weaves and various plain weaves, especially basket weaves.
HOME COMFORTS
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The linen tablecloth was either of holland, huckaback, dowlas, osnaburg, or lockram -- all heavy and comparatively coarse materials -- or of fine damask, just as to-day; some of the handsome board-cloths were even trimmed with lace.
Home Life in Colonial Days
