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heck-box (usually uncountable, plural heck-boxes)

1. (textiles, weaving, dated) A grating device used to separate and guide the threads in a warping machine.

   Synonyms: heck, jack

   • 1848, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (publisher), The Useful Arts and Manufactures of Great Britain, page 24:

     The threads pass from the bobbins to the frame through an instrument called a jack or heck-box, or simply a heck.

   • 1864, A.J. Warden, The Linen Trade, Ancient and Modern, page 704:

     The heck-box moves up and down a post, the motion being regulated by a cord passing over a wheel or pulley and wound round the axle of the reel, and unwound alternately, as the box moves up or down the post.

   • 1875, Edward Henry Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, A Description of Tools, Instruments, Machines, Processes, and Engineering; History of Inventions; General Technological Vocabulary; and Digest of Mechanical Appliances in Science and the Arts, Volume 2, page 1091:

     The heck-box slides vertically on a bar as the reel rotates, and thus disposes the warp spirally on the reel.

   • 1910, William S. Murphy, The Textile Industries, A Practical Guide to Fibres, Yarns & Fabrics in Every Branch of Textile Manufacture, Including Preparation of Fibres, Spinning, Doubling, Designing, Weaving, Bleaching, Printing, Dyeing and Finishing, Volume 4, page 81:

     For this class of work some very handy creels, heck boxes, and horizontal warping mills, with all the latest adjustments, are offered to the silk trade.