Crossword-Solution: CARDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Carding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Card |
| Carding | a. | The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t. |
| Carding | v. t. | A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “CARDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A process preparatory in spinning. | 1 answer |
| Checking IDs | 1 answer |
| Roll of wool | 1 answer |
| Bouncer's job | 4 answers |
| Leather. | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with CARDING (5)
She lifted the pot of fulling-water off the fire, and turned the room topsy-turvy, and threw down the carding-combs.
Smith, whose firm had supplied a carding engine and spinning-jenny to a small manufacturer in the town, went to "gate" and trim them.
When you have got there you must just strike the horse beneath the left ear and bid it go home again; but you may take the golden apple with you.” So the girl seated herself on the horse, and rode for a long, long way, and at last she came to the mountain, where an aged woman was sitting outside with a gold carding-comb.
Wool-carding in Barchester there was no longer any; so the bishop, dean, and warden, who took it in turn to put in the old men, generally appointed some hangers-on of their own; worn-out gardeners, decrepit grave-diggers, or octogenarian sextons, who thankfully received a comfortable lodging and one shilling and fourpence a day, such being the stipend to which, under the will of John Hiram, they were declared to be entitled.
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.
Quotes with CARDING (3)
I was shaking when our lips parted and he leaned his forehead against mine, his fingers carding through my hair, my hands on his face. "I won't let them," Rafael said. "I won't let anyone take you away. I'll protect you. I'll always protect you. I don't care how. I just will.
In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1917–2020).