| 单词 | top card |
| 释义 | > as lemmastop card top card n. a broad flat strip (originally of wood) covered with hooked teeth, set over the cylinder of a carding machine; cf. card n.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine > card or comb carder1800 comber1831 top1845 top-card1874 1817 Repertory Arts, Manufactures, & Agric. 30 139 In engine-cards the top cards need have no grooves. 1823 Philos. Mag. 62 471 A certain improvement in machinery heretofore employed in spinning-mills in the carding of cotton and other wool, whereby the top cards are regularly stripped and kept clean by the operation of the machinery. 1960 E. H. Cameron Samuel Slater Father Amer. Manufactures ii. 54 Supposed to complete the final alignment of fibres as the teeth of the carder's cylinder dragged them forward against the stationary teeth of the top cards, the machine merely rolled them up into a mass of cotton. < as lemmas |
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