Deckles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 125 anagrams from letters in deckles (cdeekls).
1800-10; German Deckel cover, lid, equivalent to deck(en) to cover (see deck) + -el noun suffix
The width of the web is controlled by the distance between the deckle straps.
It is hard to turn to the page you want, with the deckle edge you now have.
The edges of this sheet would be thin and feather-like as a result of the pulp leaking under the deckle.
Except on special papers the deckle edges are trimmed off by slitters at the end of the machine.
The stream of pulp was confined upon the wire by means of a deckle.
As a little pulp leaks under these straps machine-made paper has deckle edges on both sides of the web.
The deckle is movable, in order that it may be used with more than one mould.
The deckle edge is left uncut, just as it comes from the paper-maker.
The rough edges, or deckle, on hand-made paper is a necessary defect due to the way the paper is made.
Then the deckle frame was removed, and there, on the top of the mold, was a sheet of moist pulp.