Huckaback
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noun.
A coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric used especially for toweling.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A coarse and very durable cloth of linen, or linen and cotton, woven with alternate elevations and depressions so as to have a rough face.
Made or consisting of huckaback: as, a
huckaback
towel.
Often shortened to
huck.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A type of
coarse
,
absorbent
cotton
or
linen
fabric
used for making
towels
.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric
Word Usage
"A big pot of steaming cocido, huckaback towels wrapped around the pot handles."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
toweling
towelling
Same Context
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