单词 | mackle |
释义 | macklen. Printing. A blur in printing; a doubling of the impression; (also) a blurred sheet. Cf. macule n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > blur or smudge monk1683 mackle1706 slur1770 macule1841 shake1888 workup1948 hickey1961 society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > blur or smudge > blurred sheet mackle1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Maculature, or Macle, a waste Sheet of printed Paper. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 500 Mackle, when part of the impression on a page appears double, owing to the Plattin's dragging on the Frisket. 1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 290/2 If the frame of the tympan rubs against the platen, it will cause a slur or mackle. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 80 Mackle, a printed sheet with a slurred appearance. 1970 R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 84 Mackle, a double or blurred impression in printing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † macklev.1 Printing. Obsolete. a. intransitive. Of a sheet of paper: to become blurred or spoiled. Cf. macule v. 2. ΚΠ 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course ii. f. 22 On a double tympan or parchmin (hauing a wollen cloth betwixt them) and a moyst linnen cloth to keepe the leafe from mackling. b. transitive. To blur, spot, or spoil (a sheet of paper). In later use usually: to print (a page) blurred or double. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > style of printing [verb (transitive)] > blur or smudge slur1683 macule1841 mackle1867 1867 Fry Playing-Card Terms in Philol. Soc. Trans. 56 To Mackle, To Macule, v. a. To spot, stain, soil; to set off newly printed or painted work. Derivatives mackled adj. blurred, spotted, or spoiled. ΚΠ 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Mackled, blotted or daub'd in Printing. 1867 Fry Playing-Card Terms in Philol. Soc. Trans. 56 Mackled, adj. Spotted, stained, soiled. mackling n. ΚΠ 1867 Fry Playing-Card Terms in Philol. Soc. Trans. 56 Macklings, Mackling-paper, Mackling-sheets, soiling-paper; sheet of paper put between printed sheets of playing-cards, to prevent rubbing, setting-off, and soiling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † macklev.2 Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. intransitive. To sell weavers' goods to shopkeepers. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] to sell awayc1230 to set to (for, on) sale, a-salec1275 sella1330 to make sale (of)c1430 market1455 to make penny of1464 vent1478 to put away1574 dispatch1592 money1598 vent1602 to put off1631 vend1651 hawk1713 realize1720 mackle1724 neat1747 to sell over1837 unload1884 flog1919 move1938 shift1976 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Mackle, to sell Weavers Goods to Shop-keepers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1706v.11594v.21724 |
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