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ˈwool-card
[Cf. LG. wull(e)karten, MDa. uldkard, etc.]
An instrument (see card n.1 2) used in carding wool. Also in comb.
1564Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 96, iij paire of woll cardes. 1587L. Mascall Bk. Cattell i. (1596) 71 Ye shall therefore vse to kembe them with wooll cards or horse combe, as some do. 1629Leather 10 Woll-Card makers. 1630Proclam. in Rymer Foedera (1732) XIX. 164 English Wyer..for the making of good Wooll Cardes. 1750in 6th Rep. Dep. Kpr. App. ii. 125 For pricking the Leathers of Wool, Silk, Cotton, or any other Cards. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 231 The works [at Barnsley] were long famous for the manufacture of wool-cards.
So ˈwool-ˌcarder, one who cards wool; ˈwool-ˌcarding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Cardeur de laine, a wooll carder. 1806Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) V. 288/2, I was, lately, much pleased with seeing a wool-carding machine in operation. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 166 The wool-carding engine. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i, Streets..noisy with the..broad jests of wool-carders in the cloth-producing quarters. |