To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
An indicator card.
A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
A greeting card.
A playing card.
Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
Any game using playing cards; a card game.
A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
A business card.
A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
A test card.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.
To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning.
To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel.
By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.