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deckle

/dek-uhl/US // ˈdɛk əl //UK // (ˈdɛkəl) //

甲板,甲壳,甲壳虫,甲片

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

Examples

  • 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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