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- Carding - a. - The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.
- Carding - v. t. - A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine.
- Carding - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Card
- Comb - n. - The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.
- Squirrel - v. i. - One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.
- Lap - n. - A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- Urchin - n. - One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
- Card - n. - A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- Doffer - n. - A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards.
- Carding - v. t. - A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine.
- Lag - n. - A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
- Carding - a. - The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.
- Drawing - n. - The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
- Fleece - n. - The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.
- Creeper - n. - Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- Scribbling - n. - The act or process of carding coarsely.
- Sliver - n. - A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.