carding machine

American  

noun

1. card.

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Etymology

Origin of carding machine

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

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

Samual Mayall in Boston, about 1788 or 1789, set up a carding machine operated by horse power.

From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Cooper, Grace Rogers

However, the Scholfields' importance to American wool manufacture was not contingent on the building of one successful carding machine, regardless of whether it was the first.

From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Cooper, Grace Rogers

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 Adams, John Wolcott

There is no doubt that this carding machine was made by Arthur Scholfield, or under his immediate supervision, sometime between 1803 and 1814.

From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Cooper, Grace Rogers