| n. | 1. | (Paper Making) 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. |
| Noun | 1. | deckle - rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper Synonyms: deckle edge |
| 2. | deckle - (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets |
| deckle - /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. |