单词 | hand card |
释义 | > as lemmashand card hand card n. a card (card n.1 1) held in the hand and used in the spinning of cotton, wool, and other natural fibres; cf. stock-card n. ΚΠ 1562 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 156 Cardstocks, iijs. Stockcards and hande cards, iijs. 1625 Edinb. Test. LIII. f. 114v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Hand Ane paire of stoke cairdis and tua pair of hand cairdis. 1756 T. Turner Diary 27 Sept. (1984) (modernized text) 57 Gave Dame Dan a pair of stock and hand cards on the parish account. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 273/1 Carding..was performed by a pair of hand-cards upon the knee. 2011 D. Niemann Homegrown & Handmade xv. 237 It would take me months to turn our washed wool into roving using my pair of hand cards. < as lemmas |
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