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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.
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Deckle
is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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World English Dictionary
| deckle or deckel (ˈdɛkəl) | |
| —n | |
| 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 |
| 3. | See deckle edge |
| [C19: from German Deckel lid, from decken to cover] | |
| deckel or deckel | |
| —n | |
| [C19: from German Deckel lid, from decken to cover] | |
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Word Origin & History
deckle
1810, in paper-making, from Ger. deckel "lid, little cover," dim. of decke "cover" (see deck (n.)).
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Computing Dictionary
deckle definition
/dek'l/ (From "dec-" and "nibble"; the original spelling seems to have been "decle") Two nickles; 10 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit wide RAM but 10-bit wide ROM.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-23)
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