Meanings
nounjack towel (plural jack towels)
plural jack towels
- archaicA roller towel.First known use 16th c.
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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