huckaback

huckaback (countable and uncountable, plural huckabacks)

1. A type of coarse, absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels.
   • 1910, H G Wells: The History of Mr Polly, p 27:

     "Say I can't dress a window, you thundering old Humbug," he said, and hurled the huckaback at his master. He followed this up by pitching first a blanket, then an armful of silesia, then a window support out of the window into the shop.

• huckaback in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.