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Definition of Hopsacks
1. hopsack [n] - See also: hopsack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopsacks
Literary usage of Hopsacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Woollen and Worsted Cloth Manufacture: Being a Practical Treatise for the by Roberts Beaumont (1890)
"hopsacks or Mats. 84. Woven and Knitted Fabrics.—Every variety of woven fabric,
whether plain or figured, results from crossing, or rather from interlacing ..."
2. Textile design and colour by William Watson (1912)
"The small squares are not so clearly defined as in the ordinary hopsacks, ...
75 respectively show the 2-and-2, 3-and-3, and 4-and-4 hopsacks combined with ..."
3. Analysis of Woven Fabrics by Aldred Farrer Barker, Eber Midgley (1914)
"In problems involving changes in the weights of cloths it is also most important
to remember that the various hopsacks such as 2/2, 3/3, and 4/4 may be ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1869)
"Blackfriars Bridge for him to bring them over, far less a mail coach in which he
could take the four inside places for four great hopsacks, to hurry them ..."
5. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, John Paxton Norman (1860)
"Cloths composed of what were called large and small hopsacks, large and small
checks, large and small diamonds, were made (by weaving) in England before and ..."
6. Ireland: Industrial and Agricultural by William P. Coyne (1902)
"When warp and weft are of different colours, these patterns of course are much
accentuated It is in this way that twills, herring-bones, hopsacks, and other ..."
7. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, John Paxton Norman, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1860)
"Cloths composed of what were called large and small hopsacks, large and small
checks, large and small diamonds, were made (by weaving) in England before and ..."
8. Original Papers: Correspondence, Trustees, General Oglethorpe and Others by James Edward Oglethorpe, Lucian Lamar Knight (1910)
"... and Provost hopsacks tender of good Offices for the beni- fite of the Trustees.
I have begun to recruit servants for them, and it is necces- sary ..."
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