Pilcrow (noun)
pil-kroh
a paragraph mark.
First recorded around 1400–50. An apparent alteration of the late Middle English word pylcraft(e), perhaps from Old French paragrafe, pelagraphe.
Example sentences
“The editor asked the writer to insert pilcrows to indicate new paragraphs in the manuscript..”
Mackle (verb) mak-ul to blur, as from a double impression in printing First used in 1585–95. A variant of earlier macle, makle; earlier macule (from the Latin macula, “spot, blemish”).…