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deckel

[dek-uh l]
noun Papermaking.
  1. deckle.
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deckle

or deck·el

[dek-uh l]
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.
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Origin of deckle

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

  • Meanwhile the vat-man puts the deckel upon the other mould, and makes another sheet.

    A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines

    Andrew Ure

  • He now pushes the mould along the small board to the left, and removes the deckel.

British Dictionary definitions for deckel

deckle

deckel

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
  3. See deckle edge
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Word Origin

C19: from German Deckel lid, from decken to cover
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Word Origin and History for deckel

deckle

n.

1810, in paper-making, from German deckel "lid, little cover," diminutive of decke "cover" (see deck (n.)).

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