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carding-machine

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A machine for carding fibers of wool, flax, or cotton, preparatory to drawing and spinning.

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Examples

  • 'Why, she puts the wool on the carding-machine and ligs it out.

    Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

  • He lost one arm by the premature discharge of a Fourth of July cannon, and within three months he got the other pulled out by a carding-machine.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • When about seventeen, while tending a carding-machine, he wrote a paper in which he endeavoured to bring Calvinism into logical coherence and, in the interest of sound reason, to correct St. Paul's willingness to be accursed for the sake of his brethren.

    An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900

  • This process is repeated several times; and at last when the final sliver comes out, although it looks almost the same as when it came from the carding-machine, its fibers are parallel.

    Makers of Many Things Eva March Tappan 1892

  • When it is cleaned, it is rolled out into thin sheets and taken to the carding-machine.

    Stories of Later American History Wilbur Fisk Gordy 1891

  • They might have been made by a carding-machine; but that supposition is untenable.

    The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker 1879

  • He lost one arm by the premature discharge of a Fourth of July cannon, and within three months he got the other pulled out by a carding-machine.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • Heilmann had for some years been diligently studying the contrivance of a machine for combing long-stapled cotton, the ordinary carding-machine being found ineffective in preparing the raw material for spinning, especially the finer sorts of yarn, besides causing considerable waste.

    Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858

  • When right brown and reeking with fresh fat, it would take as many persons to feed him as a carding-machine.

    The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853

  • I have hitherto myself depended entirely on foreign manufactures: but I have now thirty-five spindles a going, a hand carding-machine, and looms with the flying shuttle, for the supply of my own farms, which will never be relinquished in my time.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784

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