Other forms: hucks
Huck is a coarse absorbent towelling fabric with small raised squares. Huck towels, a huck weave, woven in huck.
It has no looped pile, which is what separates it from ordinary towelling: the raised squares hold water while the flat weave dries fast and leaves no lint. Hospitals and glass polishers use it for exactly that reason.
1nounhuckA coarse absorbent towelling fabric woven with small raised squares, not with looped pile.
“She dried the glasses with a huck towel so they wouldn't get fluffy bits on them.”
huck is a fabric.
Also accepted in games: huckaback
Of unknown origin, short for huckaback, a name for the fabric recorded from the eighteenth century.
unknown. Perhaps a variant of chuck or hoick.
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