| DEC | a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor |
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| DEC | (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets |
| DEC | rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper |
| DEC | rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper |
| DEC | having a rough edge |
| DEC | having a rough edge |
| DEC | speak against, in an impassioned manner |
| DEC | recite in elocution |
| DEC | vehement oratory |
| DEC | recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric |
| DEC | ostentatiously lofty in style |
| DEC | that must be declared |