jack towel
English edit
Noun edit
jack towel (plural jack towels)
- (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.