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English Dictionary: Carding by the DICT Development Group
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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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