Carding [verb]

With these carding combs the lamb's fleece was all pulled out so that she suddenly looked twice her usual size.

One of the ladies-in-waiting is straightening out the tangled strands of wool with carding combs.

The planter's wife sat over against him, on the other side of the passage, carding home-grown cotton wool with hand cards.

His Grace was in a bloody rage when he found hisself in a fruit bin at Covent Carding.

They had learned the business in England, and now put in operation the first carding machine for wool made in the United States.

The distinction between clothing or carding wools on the one hand, and combing wools on the other, is an old one.

Now we are imitating the motions of carding wool, Helen whispered softly to Nathalie.

In most processes of carding the fibers are subjected to a “combing” principle, and the aim is to lay the fibers parallel.

On leaving the carding machines the lap has become a gossamer-like web thirty-nine inches broad.

The carding itself was held in the hand of the spinner and gradually drawn out and twisted by the rotation of the spindle.