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).