carding machine

American  

noun

1. card.

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Etymology

Origin of carding machine

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

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carding machine

The fibres are passed through a carding machine, emerging as a broad loose band; then sewn crosswise by rows of tiny stitches; the crosswise direction giving great strength to the finished cloth.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has a mill, a carding machine, a tavern, a schoolhouse, five stores, fourteen houses, two or three men of genius, and a noisy dam.

From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by John Wolcott Adams

As early as 1816 John Scholfield, Jr., was reported to have in his mill in Jewett City, Connecticut, a double-cylinder carding machine 3 feet wide.

From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Grace Rogers Cooper

The carding machine and the spinning jenny having been invented twenty years before, the power loom completed the machinery necessary to the indefinite extension of the manufacture of cotton.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

If the first Scholfield carding machine remained a part of the property, therefore it must have been lost in that fire.

From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Grace Rogers Cooper