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▪ I. carding, vbl. n.1|ˈkɑːdɪŋ|
Also 5 gardyng.
[f. card v.1 + -ing1; with the form gardyng cf. OF. guerder = carder (Littré Suppl.).]
1. a. The dressing of wool, cotton, etc. with cards or in a carding-machine.
1468in Ripon Ch. Acts (1882) 134 Spynnyng et cardyng in festo S. Mathi. a1485Pol. Poems (1859) II. 284 Thei putt owte of purse, As myche for gardyng, spynnyng, and wevyng. 1727De Foe Eng. Tradesm. xlvii. (1841) II. 189 The carding is generally done by hired servants. 1851Art Jrnl. Illust. Catal. p. v**/1 The carding depends more on the quality of the cards than upon any attention or skill in the operatives.
b. concr. The carded product.
1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 170 The fibres of the cotton..when sufficiently combed are called cardings.
2. Torturing with wool-combs. Cf. card v.1 4.
1828Heber Journ. India III. 348 The work of carding..murder and robbery, goes on as systematically.
3. attrib. (sense 1), as in carding-cylinder, carding-mill, carding-room; carding-engine, -machine, a machine for combing or cleansing wool or cotton, in which a large cylinder set with cards works in connexion with smaller cylinders and a hollow shell similarly set with cards.
1860Smiles Self-help ii. 35 One of the first..to adopt the *carding cylinder.
1795Edin. Advertiser 6 Jan. 15/3 The whole Cotton Machinery..consisting of five common *carding engines, etc. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 111 Towards one end of this floor are distributed the carding-engines.
1788Salem Mercury 25 Nov., A Providence paper informs, that the *Carding and Spinning Machines used in England in manufacturing cotton stuffs, are introducing into that town by some publick spirited gentlemen. 1831J. Kennedy in Mem. Lit. & Phil. Soc. Manchester V. 321 In 1784 or 5 he [sc. Samuel Crompton] made a carding machine, the working of which was a little different from those in common use.
1822J. Flint Lett. Amer. 72 A fulling-mill, a *carding-mill, and a mill for bruising flax-seed.
1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xiii, I began to work in a *carding room soon after, and the fluff got into my lungs, and poisoned me.
▪ II. ˈcarding, vbl. n.2
[f. card v.2 + -ing1.]
Card-playing. Also attrib.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, ii. §5 Where disyng, cardyng, tenys pleiyng..shalbe used. 1594Bp. King Jonas (1618) 125 To erect dicing and carding houses. 1654Trapp Comm. Job xxxi. 22 In Carding and Dicing he had often wished himself hanged if it were not so and so. 1885Pall Mall G. 24 June 2 The sole..income was derived from the carding.
▪ III. carding, ppl. a.|ˈkɑːdɪŋ|
[f. card v.1 + -ing2.]
That cards; as in carding bee = carder bee (see carder1 1 b).
1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 288 The Carding Bees nearly all perish in the winter. |