deckle

or deck·el

[ dek-uhl ]

nounPapermaking.
  1. a board, usually of stainless steel, fitted under part of the wire in a Fourdrinier machine for supporting the pulp stack before it is sufficiently formed to support itself on the wire.

Origin of deckle

1
1800–10; <German Deckel cover, lid, equivalent to deck(en) to cover (see deck) + -el noun suffix

Words Nearby deckle

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How to use deckle in a sentence

  • The deckle straps are worthy of particular notice in this beautiful machine.

  • So far has this craze gone, that machine-made paper is often put through an extra process to give it a sham deckle edge.

  • A word from me was more to them than a whole deckle-edged library from East Aurora in sectional bookcases was from anybody else.

    Roads of Destiny | O. Henry
  • Printed on the finest deckle edge paper and bound in the best silk finished cloth, with frontispiece and rubricated title page.

    The Wide, Wide World | Susan Warner
  • Handsomely bound in cloth, gilt tops, and printed on old Chester antique deckle edge paper.

    The Wide, Wide World | Susan Warner

British Dictionary definitions for deckle

deckle

deckel

/ (ˈdɛkəl) /


noun
  1. a frame used to contain pulp on the mould in the making of handmade paper

  2. Also called: deckle strap a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper

Origin of deckle

1
C19: from German Deckel lid, from decken to cover

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