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card

2  [kahrd]
–noun Also called carding machine.
1. a machine for combing and paralleling fibers of cotton, flax, wool, etc., prior to spinning to remove short, undesirable fibers and produce a sliver.
2. a similar implement for raising the nap on cloth.
–verb (used with object)
3. to dress (wool or the like) with a card.
—Idiom
4. card out, Printing. to add extra space between lines of text, so as to fill out a page or column or give the text a better appearance.
Origin:
1325–75; ME carde < MF: lit., teasel head < LL cardus thistle, var. of L carduus

Related forms:
carder, noun
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card

  1. n.
    a funny person. : Britney is such a card. She cracks me up.
  2. tv.
    to check people's ID cards for age or other eligibility. (See also carded.) : They card everybody at the football games, even the parents.

  3. Go to phish. :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

card  (v.)
"to comb wool," 1393, from O.Prov. carda, from cardar "to card," from V.L. *caritare, from L. carrere "to clean or comb with a card," from PIE base *kars- "to scrape."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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