Huckaback, a coarse kind of linen cloth, figured somewhat like damask, and usually employed for table-cloths and towelling.
Huckaback
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 818
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Huckaback, a coarse kind of linen cloth, figured somewhat like damask, and usually employed for table-cloths and towelling.