card boardn.1
/ˈkɑːd bɔːd/, U.S. /ˈkɑrd ˌbɔrd/ The wooden back of a card (card n.1). In later use also: the card itself.
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card board1420
card can1815
bend1882
nip1884
mote knife1896
1420–1 in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 505 (MED) Cardebordis.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 383 The third is a Card Board or Leaf..as yet without Leather or Teeth.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 403 In manufacturing card-boards, card-tacks, and finishing the cards.
1826 R. Mills Statistics S. Carolina 70 Button Wood..sometimes sawed into boards, and used by card-makers for card-boards or backs.
1894 C. Vickerman Woollen Spinning ix. 142 A peculiar shuffling movement of the card-boards one against the other, which had the effect of collecting and bringing off the wool in a roll.
2008 I. E. Vickers et al. Pioneer Mother ii. 6 How well I remember playing with my grandmother's card boards. These were made something on the order of a wire brush, only the wires were shorter and bent so that they pointed toward the handle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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