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deckel

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deck⋅el

[dek-uhl]
–noun Papermaking.
deckle.

deck⋅le

[dek-uhl]
–noun Papermaking.
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.
2. deckle edge.
Also, deckel.


Origin:
1800–10; < G Deckel cover, lid, equiv. to deck(en) to cover (see deck ) + -el n. suffix
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