plural of carding

present participle of card

(countable) A piece of wool rolled by a carder (carding machine). / (uncountable) The fraudulent trafficking of credit card details.

A surname originating as an occupation for a carder of wool.

Obsolete form of chard.

Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).

plural of Card / (sports) Initialism of St. Louis Cardinals.

(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning. / To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

A playing card. / (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game. / A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. / Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.

(US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. / (dated) To play cards. / (golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.