Usually means: Print defect caused by double impression.
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  1. mackle: Merriam-Webster
  2. mackle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mackle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mackle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mackle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mackle, mackle: Wordnik
  7. mackle: Wiktionary
  8. mackle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mackle: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Mackle, mackle: Dictionary.com
  11. Mackle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Mackle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. mackle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. mackle: Rhymezone
  15. Mackle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. mackle: FreeDictionary.org
  17. mackle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. mackle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mackle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mackle)

verb:  (UK, dialect, transitive) To assemble in a makeshift manner; to cobble together.
noun:  Obsolete form of macule. [A spot.]
verb:  Obsolete form of macule. [(printing) To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type.]

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