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Calender

noun

A machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers.

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"Calender" Quotes from Famous Books

... the well-affected, in such a terrible manner, that about twelve hundred men assembled in a body under Acknalase, who brought them down to Monteith, to live upon the disaffected in that country, but the Athol men falling upon them at Calender (and being but poorly armed) several of them were killed, and the rest fled towards Stirling, where their master the noble marquis met them, and commiserating their deplorable condition, carried them through to Lennox, to live upon ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

... linendraper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend ...

— Graded Poetry: Seventh Year • Various

... of the sheet is very poor, due to the fact that the calender stack was composed of very light rolls which did not have a satisfactory surface, yet the stack is known to be able to produce better finishes if ...

— Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material - United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 404 • Lyster H. Dewey and Jason L. Merrill

... the Frenchmen live that calender worsted," returned Giles. "Come on; who knows how it is with the old man and ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

Words linked to "Calender" : press, machine, calendrical