An implement used for raising a nap on cloth, esp. (in early use) a brush consisting of teasel-heads set in a frame. Now rare.
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| 释义 | the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > card or comb (7) card1463 An implement used for raising a nap on cloth, esp. (in early use) a brush consisting of teasel-heads set in a frame. Now rare. preen1602 A comb-like tool used by clothmakers (see quot. 1688). Cf. preem, n.1 Obsolete. comb- transferred. Applied, chiefly in technical use, to various things resembling a comb in function… An instrument with two or three rows of iron… Subcategories:— stock or frame for (2) — fineness of wire in (2) |
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