When Pip comes home in chapter two, and Mrs. Joe is about to come in, Joe says, "She's a-coming! Get behind the door, old chap, and have the jack-towel betwixt you."
I have two questions: one, what is a jack-towel? And what does 'betwixt' mean (because it is used a few more times over the course of the novel so far)?
Jack-towels are like roller towels, which are long, circular kinds of towels that are hung on rollers. Also, I believe that "betwixt" is an Old English way of saying "between."
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