cardingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkɑːdɪŋ/us/ˈkɑːdɪŋ/the process of using wire brushes to separate the threads of some materials such as wool before they can be used
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Industry & industrial processes
- compression moulding
- deindustrialization
- die cutting
- heavy industry
- industrialization
- industrialize
- injection moulding
- just-in-time
- light industry
- machine carding
- manufacture
- mining
- plastic
- prefabricated
- quality assurance
- quality control
- raw
- rustbelt
- sand-cast
- tertiary
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Examples from literature
- Carding was done by cylindrical carding machines invented by Lewis Paul.
- Some of the ladies were knitting socks, some carding wool, while they talked together, after the fashion of the good, industrious dames of the olden time they represented.
- There the wife and children usually were busy carding and spinning.
- Weaving, wool combing, and carding were skilled occupations.
- What with the washing and the oiling of it, the carding and the spinning, the twisting and the winding, she never seemed to be done.