- 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.
- a machine in which paper or cloth is glazed or smoothed by passing between rollers
- to subject (material) to such a process
- a member of a mendicant order of dervishes in Turkey, Iran, and India
