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1. (n.) deckle
a board, usu. of steel, fitted under part of the wire in a papermaking machine for supporting the pulp stack before it is sufficiently formed to support itself on the wire.
Etymology: (1800–10; < G Deckel cover, lid =deck(en) to cover (see deck ))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) deckle edge, deckle
rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper
2. (noun) deckle
(paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) deckle
a separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. deckle
[from dec- and nybble; 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. See nybble for
other such terms.
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