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jack towel

jack towel noun: a roller towel.

Noun

jack towel (plural jack towels)

  1. (archaic) A roller towel.
    • 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

Forms of jack towel

pluraljack towels

Questions about jack towel

What does jack towel mean?
Jack towel means a roller towel.
What part of speech is jack towel?
Jack towel is a noun.
What is the plural of jack towel?
The plural of jack towel is jack towels.

Words near jack towel in the dictionary

  1. Jack the lad
  2. Jack the lads
  3. Jack the Ripper
  4. jack timber
  5. jack timbers
  6. jack towel
  7. jack towels
  8. jack truss
  9. jack trusses
  10. jack up
  11. Jack whore

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