CARDING
Verb
carding
present participle of card
Noun
carding (countable and uncountable, plural cardings)
(countable) A piece of wool rolled by a carder (carding machine).
(uncountable) The fraudulent trafficking of credit card details.
Source: Wiktionary
Card"ing, a.
1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc.,
bycarding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.
2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding
machine. Carding engine, Carding machine, a machine for carding
cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of
cylinders, or drum covered with wire-toothed cards, revoling nearly
in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in
opposite directions, The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender
rolls called sivers.
CARD
Card, n. Etym: [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. Chart.]
1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for
various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of
invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray.
2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation,
request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the
newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or
inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the
fair.
3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or
face of the mariner's compass.
All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. Shak.
4. (Weaving)
Definition: A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads,
making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
5. An indicator card. See under Indicator. Business card, a card on
which is printed an advertisement or business address.
– Card basket (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers.
(b) A basket made of cardboard.
– Card catalogue. See Catalogue.
– Card rack, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or
visiting card.
– Card table, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a
leaf which folds over.
– On the cards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet
brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into
common use; also, according to the programme.
– Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the
cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having
each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds,
clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards.
– To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards;
to have the means of success in an undertaking.
– To play one's cards well, to make no errors; to act shrewdly.
– To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or
foes.
– To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely,
not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card.
– Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the
address, of the person presenting it.
Card, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Carded; p. pr. & vb. n. Carding.]
Definition: To play at cards; to game. Johnson.
Card, n. Etym: [F. carde teasel, the head of a thistle, card, from L.
carduus, cardus, thistle, fr. carere to card.]
1. An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of
cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of
animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows
in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.
2. A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding
machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering
the cylinders of carding machines.
Card, v. t.
1. To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to
card wool; to card a horse.
These card the short comb the longer flakes. Dyer.
2. To clean or clear, as if by using a card. [Obs.]
This book [must] be carded and purged. T. Shelton.
3. To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [Obs.]
You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk.
– half small, half strong. Greene.
Note: In the manufacture of wool, cotton, etc., the process of
carding disentangles and collects together all the fibers, of
whatever length, and thus differs from combing, in which the longer
fibers only are collected, while the short straple is combed away.
See Combing.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition