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jack towel

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jack towel (plural jack towels)

  1. (now rare) A roller towel. [from 16th c.]
    • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 271:
      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.
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