mackle

[prettygoodword]

mackle (MAK-uhl) - n., a blur in printing, as from a double-impression or slipped paper. v., to blur in this way.


Also, obsolete (rather than merely rare printing jargon) sense of a spot, which goes to the original Latin meaning of the root, macula. Earlier form (via French) was macule, but by around 1590, it had taken on the forms macle/makle/mackle.

---L.

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[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've never heard that one.