Definition of "deckled" [deckled]

• Having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The story begins like all classicall tales, there are pretty illustrations accompanying the text, a nicely done deckled edge and the books as a whole are overall quite adorable."
• "Giant bait balls of sardines deckled and thrashed the surface, while hundreds of small terns and a few wide-winged frigate birds swooped over them."
• "The rust had eaten the edges of the sign so it looked like deckled Tiziano paper."