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Discard :: Discard (n.) The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded..

Lag :: Lag (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine..

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) 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..

Squirted :: Squirrel (v. i.) One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.

Comb :: Comb (n.) The serrated vibratory doffing knife of a carding machine.

Carding :: Carding (v. t.) A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine.

Carding :: Carding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Car.

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) Any device for 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..

Discarding :: Discarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discar.

Jack :: Jack (n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.

Swifter :: Swift (n.) The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine.

Fleece :: Fleece (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Placarding :: Placarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Placar.

Scribbling :: Scribbling (n.) The act or process of carding coarsely.

Carding :: Carding (a.) The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t..

Lap :: Lap (n.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine..

Doffer :: Doffer (n.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards..

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

Card :: Card (n.) A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.

Card :: Card (v. t.) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse..

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