1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. Wooll-carding.

1804 Little Islanders 15 Two little girls who were acquainted with wool carding, and weaving.

1891 R. Routledge Discov. & Inventions 19th Cent. (ed. 8) 598 Among the purposes to which gutta-percha has been applied..may be named the formation of..cards for wool-carding, hammercloths, life-preservers, and trusses.

1935 R. A. Knox Barchester Pilgrimage (1996) vi. 245 When he was in the school there was no wool-carding done, but a precious lot of wool-gathering.

1994 Minnesota Monthly Dec. 97/1 This memoir begins with meticulous descriptions of endless, wearying work, mostly done by the women of the family—soap-making, candle-making, wool-carding, spinning.

1880 J. E. Sandys Bacchae of Euripides Introd. p. xxvii His death was referred to in another play called the Ξάντριαι, the title of which was formerly understood of the Bacchantes tearing their victims in pieces... It appears simpler, however, to take it in the more obvious sense of ‘the wool-carding women’.

1910 Manawatu (N.Z.) Standard 9 Aug. 5/2 The wool-carding workers of Manchester has approved of allowing the wages to remain unaltered for five years.

1958 Time & Tide 20 Sept. 1143/2 Did memory stab him with a recollection of his wool-carding boyhood?

2008 K. Narayan in W. Schneider Living with Stories iv. 83 A wool-carding woman comes to your courtyard. A half-year's worth of wool is to be carded: fluff it all in one night.