jack towel

noun

jack towel

noun
1

Archaic A roller towel.

  • Bronze declared to me that she had never seen such a thing as a jack-towel in the house, nor even the nail-holes where one had been.1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 271:

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