deckle

or deck·el

[ dek-uhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Papermaking.

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.
deckle edge.

deckle

/ ˈdɛkəl /

a frame used to contain pulp on the mould in the making of handmade paper
Also calleddeckle strap a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
See deckle edge
See deckle edge

Origin of deckle¹

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

Origin of deckle¹

C19: from German Deckel lid, from decken to cover

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.

Printed on the finest deckle edge paper and bound in the best silk finished cloth, with frontispiece and rubricated title page.

Handsomely bound in cloth, gilt tops, and printed on old Chester antique deckle edge paper.

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