huckaback
huck

Huckaback is a type of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels.

It carried a large trade in cattle and horses, and manufactured linen and huckaback.

Cancelled because of bad weather, Huckaback was reinvented as a raid on Herm alone.

Operation Huckaback was a British Commando raid during the Second World War.

You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback, why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Operation Huckaback was a raid originally planned for the night of 9/10 February 1943, as simultaneous raids on Herm, Jethou and Brecqhou.

The apparatus was rudimentary: Larch shaped a cone out of an ordinary huckaback towel; between the layers of the towel were layers of stiff paper to keep the cone from collapsing.

Betty Marsden played Dame Celia Molestrangler, and Hugh Paddick was 'ageing juvenile' Binkie Huckaback (named after theatrical impresario Binkie Beaumont).

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.