hykes

In thefe huts die women make iheir blankets called hykes, and the goal's hair clotli for their tents -, wcavr ing them not with a fiiutile, but conducing every thread of the woof with thtir fingers.

A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America 1767

The Egyptian kneading-trough was a bowl of wicker or rush work, and it admitted of being hastily wrapped up with the dough in it and slung over the shoulder in their hykes or loose upper garments.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

"Well, Ryder gives us a address over across the bay an 'we fair hykes over there all along o' as crool a rain as ever killed crops.

A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886

"The chief manufacture of the Kabyles and Arabs is the making 'hykes,' as they call their blankets.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Jules Verne 1866