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The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., bycarding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

otton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.

causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.

The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down. Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinder (usually having straight teeth) in front of the doffer. -- Fancy stocks, a species of stocks which afford great opportunity for stock gambling, since they have no intrinsic value, and the fluc…

-- Feed cloth, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc. -- Feed door, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal. -- Feed head. (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which serves to render the cas…

The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. Fleece wool, wool shorn from the sheep. -- Golden fleece. See under Golden.

or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.

A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.

One who, or that which, licks. Licker in (Carding Machine), the drum, or cylinder, by which the lap is taken from the feed rollers.

The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbing machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.

and, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.

One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder. Barking squirrel (Zoöl.), the prairie dog. -- Federation squirrel (Zoöl.), the striped gopher. See Gopher, 2. -- Flying squirrel (Zoöl.). See Flying squirrel, in the Vocabulary. -- Java squirrel (Zoöl.). See Jelerang. -- Squirrel corn…

be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank. I must buy the stock; send me good cardings. Beau. & Fl.

The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.

One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog. Knight. Urchin fish (Zoöl.), a diodon.