Definition of Carding

1. a. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.

Definition of Carding

1. Verb. (present participle of card) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Carding

1. the process of combing and cleaning cotton fibers; cleaned and combed fibers [n -S]

Medical Definition of Carding

1. The procedure of placing individual sets of anterior or posterior teeth in trays lined with a wax strip. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carding

cardinalates
cardinalfish
cardinalfishes
cardinalin
cardinalist
cardinalists
cardinalities
cardinality
cardinalize
cardinalized
cardinalizing
cardinally
cardinals
cardinalship
cardinalships
carding (current term)
carding machine
carding machines
cardings
cardio
cardio-
cardio-omentopexy
cardioaccelerator
cardioactive
cardioangiography
cardioaortic
cardioarterial
cardioarterial interval
cardiocele
cardiochalasia

Literary usage of Carding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1900)
"The carding of waste can be performed by two systems viz.: carding on Derby doubler system. Breaker carding engine, fed by two single scutcher laps and ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"In a carding engine, the combination of a continuously reciprocating rubber, ... The combination, in a carding engine, of a condensing or rubber cylinder, ..."

3. The History of Boscawen and Webster [N.H.] from 1733 to 1878 by Charles Carleton Coffin (1878)
"At that time all carding was done by hand; and men and women during the long winter evenings spent their time in carding, seated around the wide-mouthed ..."

4. A Practical Detail of the Cotton Manufacture of the United States of America by James Montgomery (1840)
"There are no carding engines in this country, ... 2d represents the general form of carding engines used in Scotland, and for very fine numbers in England. ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"carding by Ila/ul.—The former method of carding wool was by means of hand ... The method of carding wool by hand was as follows: A hand card was held in the ..."

6. Two Related Industries: An Account of Paper-making and of Paper-makers by Perry Walton, Huyck, F. C., & sons (1920)
"AMERICAN AND ENGLISH EFFORTS TO PERFECT carding At Philadelphia, which has long been a textile machinery centre, Oliver Evans in 1777 made teeth for cards, ..."

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