Hypertext Webster Gateway: "carding"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Card \Card\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Carded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Carding}.]
To play at cards; to game. --Johnson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Carding \Card"ing\, a.
1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc.,
by carding 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.
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