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carder
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Word definitions for carder in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carder \Card"er\, n. One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc. --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person employed to card wool. 2 A carding machine. 3 A criminal who steals information from credit cards.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Carder is a surname of English origin, derived from the occupation of carding .
Usage examples of carder.
Downs could tell that the Ebbets Field press box attendant was a wild carder, and not only because of his sweet smell.
Cyrus Harding, having at his disposal neither carders, combers, polishers, stretchers, twisters, mule-jenny, nor self-acting machine to spin the wool, nor loom to weave it, was obliged to proceed in a simpler way, so as to do without spinning and weaving.
He was here today, a teenager now, and, while he would never be strong, while there would always be a risk, a danger, thanks to the research the medical authorities had been able to do, the donation of bone marrow and blood cells by adult male carders like Lewis, in Michael at least the progress of the genetic disorder had been halted.
The small square Carder watch with the black strap was her only jewellery and the short fingernails on the small brown hand that lay over his were un-painted.
They turned the corner and found a wool carder, crying in a loud voice that this was their last chance for mattresses and paillasses, to sleep warm, and not freeze like the Baby Jesus, and next to him a waterman was shouting, and as they continued along the streets, still roughly laid out, they could see doorways where a carpenter was working his plane, and over there a smith striking his anvil in a festival of sparks, and farther on another man taking loaves from an oven that glowed like the mouth of Hell.
It's very rare for male carders of the defect to survive to adulthood, never mind not suffer any physical effects of the disease.
Jessica was a very strong and courageous young woman, but to learn totally out of the blue that she could be the carder of such an ultimately destructive gene.
The carders and the dyers, incidentally, are subcastes separate from the weavers.
He had also been apprenticed as a wool sorter, a comber, a carder, and a warper.