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huckaback
huckaback (ˈhʌkəbæk) Also 8 hucca-, hukka-, hugaback, hag-a-bag, hagabag, 9 huggaback, huck-a-back. [Origin unknown. Prof. Skeat has pointed out the close resemblance of the word to LG. hukkebak, Ger. huckepack, adv., in huckepack tragen to carry on the back, to carry (a child) pick-a-back, suggesti...
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Huckaback fabric
Huckaback fabric or Huck is a type of toweling cloth with a bird's eye or honeycomb pattern. Huckaback
Blended Huck towels are made by keeping warp in cotton and weft in linen.
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Operation Huckaback
Operation Huckaback was a British Commando raid during the Second World War. Huckaback was reinvented as a raid on Herm alone on the night of 27/28 February 1943.
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huck
▪ I. huck, n.1 Obs. exc. dial. (hʌk) Forms: 5 hoke(bone), 6 huc(bone), huke(bane), 7 huck(bone), 8 huke, 9 dial. hug, heuk, huck. [Etymology uncertain: see Note below.] The hip, the haunch.1788 W. Marshall Yorksh. Gloss., Huke, the huckle, or hip. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., I was wounded i' th' hu...
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Binkie
Beaumont (1908–1973), British theatre manager and producer
Binkie Stuart, Scottish child actress born as Elizabeth Alison Fraser (1932–2001)
Binkie Huckaback
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Edward Rigby
Selected filmography
The Blue Bird (1910, Short) – Bread
Lorna Doone (1934) – Reuben 'Uncle Ben' Huckaback
Windfall (1935) – Sam Spooner
No Limit
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macramé
macramé (məˈkrɑːmeɪ) Also macrami. [App. a. Turk. maqrama towel, napkin, handkerchief, a. Arab. miqrama{suph} ? striped cloth.] A fringe or trimming of knotted thread or cord; knotted-work; the art of making this. Also attrib.1869 F. B. Palliser Lace iv. 65 This art is principally applied to the orn...
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Lorna Doone (2000 film)
Reuben - Jack Shepherd
Tom Faggus - Anthony Calf
Marwood de Whichehalse - Jesse Spencer
Lizzie Ridd - Joanne Froggatt
Annie Ridd - Honeysuckle Weeks
Ruth Huckaback
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a-wrack
a-wrack, advb. phr. (əˈræk) [a prep.1 + wrack.] In a state of wreck or ruin.1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ix. 41 If she split or sinke, she is awracke. a 1845 Hood Irish Schm. xx, Like tears dried up with rugged huckaback, That sets the mournful visage all awrack. [The sense here is doubtful.]
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Lorna Doone (1934 film)
Loder as John Ridd
Margaret Lockwood as Annie Ridd
Roy Emerton as Carver Doone
Mary Clare as Mistress Sara Ridd
Edward Rigby as Reuben 'Uncle Ben' Huckaback
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Herm
It was occupied by Germany in the Second World War and the scene of Operation Huckaback, but was largely bypassed. Operation Huckaback
Operation Huckaback was a British Second World War military operation that was originally designed to be a raid on Herm, Jethou and
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cashmere
cashmere (ˈkæʃmɪə(r), kæʃˈmɪə(r)) Also cashmeer, cachemire, -mere, and with capital initial. [Cashmere or Kashmīr, name of a kingdom in the Western Himalayas, used attrib.] a. More fully cashmere shawl: A costly shawl made of fine soft wool obtained from the Cashmere goat and the wild goat of Tibet....
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Towel
See also
Huckaback fabric
Terrycloth
Towel day
Towel tablet
References
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Glenn R.
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