chu-chunk

Updated: May 11, 2025

To this day I cannot hear the thick chu-chunk! of heavy wheels on March mud without a sudden mechanical echo of that wild, young outcry: "Must I cut out underclothes forever? Must I go on tucking the broken end of the thread into the nick in the spool? Is this LIFE?"

Various - McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896