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."
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