Calendering
a machine in which cloth, paper, or the like, is smoothed, glazed, etc., by pressing between rotating cylinders.
a machine for impregnating fabric with rubber, as in the manufacture of automobile tires.
to press in a calender.
Historical Examples
Textiles William H. Dooley
Cooley’s Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades…, Sixth Edition, Volume I Arnold Cooley
From Paper-mill to Pressroom William Bond Wheelwright
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
Foods and Household Management Helen Kinne
From Paper-mill to Pressroom William Bond Wheelwright
Textiles William H. Dooley
noun
a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
verb
(transitive) to subject (material) to such a process
noun
a member of a mendicant order of dervishes in Turkey, Iran, and India
v.
n.
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