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  • adjective having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade

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  • Having a rough edge; used to describe handmade paper or paper meant to resemble handmade.

    You see these edges nowadays in fancy-schmancy leatherbound hardcovers, but usually it's done by machine. :-)

    February 21, 2007

  • Squirrelprick Press is producing my

    latest, Blood Drops in distich,

        hand-[deckled

    limp-covered rag,

        Special Edition of ten.]

    - Peter Reading, Going On, 1985

    June 19, 2009

  • Etymology available at deckle.

    May 4, 2024