Deckle

v. cut paper leaving rough edge

n. ragged edge of paper; frame used to form paper pulp into sheets

A Deckle is used in (manual) papermaking, along with a mold, to gather up woodpulp from a vat for pressing and drying into sheets.
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Noun
1. rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper
(synonym) deckle edge
(hypernym) edge
2. (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets
(hypernym) framework, frame, framing

(n.)
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.
  

/dek'l/ (From "dec-" and "nibble"; 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.
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(1994-11-23)