Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who plays at cards; a gamester: as, “coggers, carders, dicers,”
  • noun A jackdaw.
  • noun Same as carder-bee (which see).
  • noun One who or that which cards wool; specifically, the machine employed in carding wool.
  • noun [capitalized] One of an association of Irish rebels who tortured their victims by driving a wool- or flax-card into their backs and then dragging it down along the spine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person employed to card wool.
  • noun A carding machine.
  • noun A criminal who steals information from credit cards.

Etymologies

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card +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Most illegal online loot was fenced through four so-called carder sites—marketplaces for online criminals to buy and sell credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and other purloined data.

    One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards 2008

  • Most illegal online loot was fenced through four so-called carder sites—marketplaces for online criminals to buy and sell credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, and other purloined data.

    One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards 2008

  • STRANGER: I mean the work of the carder’s art; for we cannot say that carding is weaving, or that the carder is a weaver.

    The Statesman 2006

  • The phishers and the cashiers would meet in online "carder" Web sites to buy and sell stolen IDs, Aveis said.

    CSO 2010

  • The phishers and the cashiers would meet in online "carder" Web sites to buy and sell stolen IDs, Aveis said.

    CSO 2010

  • Q&A J. Keith Mularski talks about the two years he spent posing as a "carder" in the Dark Market sting and the challenge of keeping up appearances.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • Q&A J. Keith Mularski talks about the two years he spent posing as a "carder" in the Dark Market sting and the challenge of keeping up appearances.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • Q&A J. Keith Mularski talks about the two years he spent posing as a "carder" in the Dark Market sting and the challenge of keeping up appearances.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • Q&A J. Keith Mularski talks about the two years he spent posing as a "carder" in the Dark Market sting and the challenge of keeping up appearances.

    CNET News.com 2009

  • Q&A J. Keith Mularski talks about the two years he spent posing as a "carder" in the Dark Market sting and the challenge of keeping up appearances.

    CNET News.com 2009

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