Carder

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  • n. A person employed to card wool.
  • n. A carding machine.
  • n. A criminal who steals information from credit cards.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which cards wool flax, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who plays at cards; a gamester: as, “coggers, carders, dicers,”
  • n. One who or that which cards wool; specifically, the machine employed in carding wool.
  • n. [capitalized] One of an association of Irish rebels who tortured their victims by driving a wool- or flax-card into their backs and then dragging it down along the spine.
  • n. A jackdaw.
  • n. Same as carder-bee (which see).
  • Word Usage
    "STRANGER: I mean the work of the carder’s art; for we cannot say that carding is weaving, or that the carder is a weaver."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ardor    harder    larder    marder    yarder   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    briber    draftsmen    presser    peacoat    scene-painter    underdress    dozer    instantiation    stapler    delaine