different between frisket vs frislet

English

Borrowed from French frisquette

frisket (plural friskets)

(printing) A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises
  And while the Tympan is coming , he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it , as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position , as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder

frisket

frislet (plural frislets)

A kind of small ruffle.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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