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One who pursues the business of calendering. My good friend the calender. Cawper.

A person who calenders cloth; a calender.

in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like.

uster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. Hooker.

See 3d Calender.

; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.

To calender; as, to plate paper.

A machine for calendering paper.

metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc. -- Rolling press. (a) A machine for calendering cloth by pressure between revolving rollers. (b) A printing press with a roller, used in copperplate printing. -- Rolling stock, or Rolling plant, the locomotives and vehicles of a railway. -- Rolling tackle (Naut.),…

To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.

The undulating line or streak of luster on cloth watered, or calendered, or on damask steel.