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▪ I. mackle, macle, n. Printing.|ˈmæk(ə)l|
[ad. F. macule, ad. L. macula spot. Cf. G. makel spot, stain.]
A blur in printing; a doubling of the impression; also, a blurred sheet. (Cf. macule n.)
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Maculature, or Macle, a waste Sheet of printed Paper. 1825Hansard Typographia 928 Mackle, when part of the impression on a page appears double, owing to the platten's dragging on the frisket. 1871Amer. Encycl. Printing (ed. Ringwalt) s.v., If the frame of the tympan rubs against the platen, it will cause a slur or mackle. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Mackle, a printed sheet with a slurred appearance.
▪ II. mackle, macle, v.1 Printing.|ˈmæk(ə)l|
[f. mackle n.]
a. trans. To blur, spot, or spoil (a sheet of paper); also (now usually) to print (a page) blurred or double.
b. intr. Of the paper: To become blurred or spoiled. (Cf. macule v.) Hence ˈmackled ppl. a., ˈmackling vbl. n.
1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 22 On a double tympan or parchmin (hauing a wollen cloth betwixt them) and a moyst linnen cloth to keepe the leafe from mackling. 1724Bailey, Mackled, blotted or daub'd in Printing. 1867Fry 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. Mackled, adj. Spotted, stained, soiled. Macklings, Mackling-paper, Mackling-sheets, soiling-paper; sheet of paper put between printed sheets of playing-cards, to prevent rubbing, setting-off, and soiling.
▪ III. † ˈmackle, v.2 Obs.—0
[ad. Du. makelen to offer for sale.]
intr. ‘To sell weavers' goods to shop-keepers’ (Bailey 1724).
Hence † ˈmackler, a seller of weavers' goods (Bailey 1731 vol. II). |