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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Sliver :: Sliver (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning..

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.

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

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