deckle

UK: /ˈdɛk^əl/ US: (dek′əl)

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deck•le  (dek′əl), n. [Papermaking.]

1. Printing 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. Printing See deckle edge. 

Also, deckel. 

• German Deckel cover, lid, equivalent. to deck(en) to cover (see deck) + -el noun, nominal suffix
• 1800–10

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deckle, deckel / ˈdɛk^əl/ 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

Etymology: 19th Century: from German Deckel lid, from decken to cover