cardern.1
/ˈkɑːdə/, U.S. /ˈkɑrdər/ 1.
a. A person who processes wool, flax, cotton, etc., or raises a nap on cloth, using a card (card n.1). Also: a person who attends to or operates a carding machine (carding machine n.).See also stock-carder n., wool carder n., silk-carder n. Recorded earliest as a surname.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > one who
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1334–5 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 28 Robertus de Coleby, carder.
1449 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1449 §20. m. 6 Many clothmakers..men wevers, fullers, diers, and women kembers, carders, and spynners..of verrey necessite be compelled for their lyvyng to do the occupations.
1514–15 Act 6 Henry VIII ix. §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 130 The Carder and Spinner to delyver..yerne of the same Wolle.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 34 The Clothiers..haue put off The Spinsters, Carders, Fullers, Weauers. View more context for this quotation
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Cloth The cloth..is..given, all wet, to the Carders, to raise the Hair, or Nap, on the right Side, with the Thistle, or Weed.
1881 W. C. Bramwell Wool-carders' Vade Mecum (ed. 3) 13 The old-fashioned carders, who were proficient on the old style of carding machines, do not possess the peculiar knowledge demanded nowadays.
2012 @kimfenton 29 July in twitter.com (accessed 23 June 2020) Spinners, weavers, knitters, carders, hookers and more will be on hand, demonstrating their craft and selling their wares.
b. A machine or an instrument used for carding wool, cotton, etc. Cf. carding machine n., card n.1 1.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine > card or comb
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1800 Minutes of Evid. Woollen Manufactory (House of Lords) 42 Scribblers and Carders, the Machines I was speaking of before.
1912 A. F. Barker & E. Priestley Wool Carding 228 The slivers are fed into the comb just as if they were fed out of the can-coiler from the carder.
1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 755/2 Placing a bunch of wool on one toothed carder, she combed it with the other, making soft, fluffy wisps ready for spinning.
2006 Spin-off Spring 76/2 I put some alpaca..on the carder's infeed tray and then fed in the fibers.
c. More fully carder bee. Any of several bumblebees or other bees which make a nest of shredded grass or moss above ground. Occasionally with distinguishing word. Cf. card v.1 1c.Also called carding bee.moss carder: see the first element.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee) > bombus muscorum
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1830 J. Rennie Insect Archit. iv. 64 Carder-bees. The nests of the bees which Réaumur denominates carders (Bombus muscorum, Latr.), are by no means uncommon, and are well worth the study of the naturalist.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 68 There were the buff-coloured carders, that erected over their honey-jars domes of moss.
1931 Irish Naturalists' Jrnl. 3 258 The latter [bumble bees] are known as ‘carder bees’ because they ‘card’ or work the moss into the shape of a nest.
2014 Yr Ardd Summer 7/1 The common carder bee Bombus pascuorum uses its clawed feet to gain entry to the hanging flowers of comfrey.
2. In plural and usually with capital initial. The members of an agrarian protest organization active in Ireland in the early 19th cent., whose chief grievances were the cost of leases and the level of tithes. Cf. Thresher n.2 Now historical.The name of the group came from their threats to use wool cards as a weapon against those who opposed them (see quot. 1812); cf. card v.1 2. Quot. 1807 shows earlier use in the name of Captain Carder, a fictional member of the organization said to be responsible for punishing those who refused to swear an oath to follow its manifesto, which was signed in the name Captain Thresher (see Thresher n.2).
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > torturer > one who uses wool-card
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1807 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 58 Those who refused to take it [sc. an oath not to pay tithes to proctors], were..delivered over to Captain Carder, to have their backs carded, (that is, flayed with a steel instrument used in dressing flax.)]
1812 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 282/2 Persons who call themselves Carders, from the instrument they use (a wool card) to enforce compliance with their demands for the regulation of the price of land [in Ireland].
1825 E. E. Crowe To-day in Ireland I. i. 5 These servants and defenders of the government..were not more than in proportion to its enemies, who, under divers titles, such as ribbonmen, whiteboys, carders, had formed a committee in the town, and were most active in spreading disaffection amongst the peasantry.
2017 M. Huggins in K. Hughes & D. M. MacRaild Crime, Violence, & Irish in Nineteenth Cent. i. 35 Names of Ribbon lodges: Fraternal Society, Patriotic Association,..The Knights of St Patrick..can be contrasted with those of popular protests: Carders, Threshers,..and so forth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† cardern.2
Obsolete.
A person who plays cards, esp. regularly or as a pastime.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > card-player
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a1450 in F. W. Willmore Hist. Walsall (1887) 167 That who soevyr suffer eny dise-player, carder, tenys player, or other unliefull gamer, to use unlifull games in their house, to lese for..suche defaute vis. viiid.
?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.viii Walkers by nyght..and Ioly carders.
1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 94 There is not one dicer nor yet carder in all our countrey.
1638 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 162 A companier of papists, ane usuall carder on Sonday.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 308. ⁋6 The Carders..never begin to play till the French-Dances are finished.
1871 ‘S. Tytler’ & J. L. Watson Songstresses Scotl. I. 236 The company were divided, by the rule of three, into drinkers..carders, and dancers.
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