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The wooden back of a card (card, n.1). In later use also: the card itself.
a receptacle into which the carded wool, etc., falls, after being processed by a carding machine.
concrete. In a carding machine, the semicircular frame which carries the brackets in which the rollers are borne; also, in a carding machine of…
In an apparatus for combing wool or silk: a piece of the mechanism which catches and carries forward the material. Frequently attributive, esp. in nip…
(in a carding machine) a knife for removing motes from textile fibres.