meaning of deckle
1. 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.
2. deckle /dekl/ From "dec-" and "nibble"; the original spelling seems to have been "decle" Two nickles; 10 bits. Reported among developers for Mattels GI 1600 the Intellivision games processor, a chip with 16-bit wide RAM but 10-bit wide ROM. [Jargon File]
3. paper making a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets
Related Words
deckle | deckle edge | deckle-edged | deckled |
