carded

comparative more carded · superlative most carded

1. Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device.

   The carded twills include three- and four-leaf herringbone twill and three- and fou -leaf regular twill.

   1952 June, United States Department of Agriculture: Production and Marketing Administration, Marketing Research Report, page 59

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   Mr. Whitman holds up the National Association of Wool Manufacturers as the representative of the carded woolen manu- facturers of the United States.

   1910, Edward Moir, “A Battle Royal in Wool: The Side of Carded Wool”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume 22, page 656n

   In the manufacture of worsted yarn the carded wool must be passed through combing machines until all the fibers lay parallel to each other.

   1911 October 11, National Wool Grower - Volume 2, page 34

2. Combed.

   Last year the difference in gain of the uncarded steers over the carded was comparatively large.

   1867, Report of the Board of Trustees of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts

3. Straightly aligned, as if combed.

   There they stretched in a carded drift of fierce white fire, smouldering in the resplendent blue, and consumed by its own intensity.

   2000, William Douglas O'Connor, Harrington: A Story of True Love

4. Listed officially on an information card.

   The jackets contain very few personal papers in contrast to the carded records for the Civil War (entry 519).

   1949, National Archives (U.S.), Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, page 102

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   If it accepts a car as safe and subsequently a wreck occurs, while it cannot evade its responsibility for the wreck by attributing the failure to a carded defect ; if in place of settling for the car it elects to make the repairs , be they light or heavy , it clearly has the right to collect from the owner of the car on so unquestioned a defect as a broken side sill , which is carded for by the owner of the car.

   1901, Master Car Builders' Association. Arbitration Committee, Arbitration Cases, page 200

   Trains Nos. 2 and 4 on time table No. 129 are carded to make the run between Emerson and Sioux City in respectively one hour and five minutes and one hour and ten minutes, and to make stops at all stations as to both trains with the exception of the stations of Ferry and First Street, while the carded time of trains Nos . 10 and 12 between Emerson and Sioux City are respectively one hour and one hour and five minutes .

   1917, Annual Report of the Nebraska State Railway Commission to the Governor, page 193

   The third set of pictures includes two colors of the rare Feathered Wobbler, the rare Marathon Tree Spoon, a carded Kittyclaw, and a carded Gooney Bird (rare).

   2011, Robert A. Slade, The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures: Made in North America, page 129

5. Possessing an official membership card;card-carrying.

   Becoming a carded pro rodeo photographer is no easy task.

   2023, Alyn Robert Brereton, Cowboys and Rodeos

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   Tow MH had an operator nicknamed "The man who wasn't carded." He was a fair operator, a good railroad man, good hearted, always wore a smile, worked when others didn't and was always on the job. Be he did not have a card. "Did you ever think this matter over carefully?" asked a carded man.

   1913, The Railroad Telegrapher - Volume 30, Issue 2, page 1351

   After an initial spurt of energy in which I looked around fervently for employment as a carded construction labourer, I fell into a lethargy and then depression.

   2012, Leo Anthony, Between Two Worlds: The Account of a Jet-Setting Vagrant, page 183

6. hobbiesSigned onto a current season players card.

   A carded player could not go down and play for the Atom "B" team unless he is first released from the Atom “A” team.

   1995, John Shorey, Hockey Made Easy, page 170

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   In essence, a carded athlete should see training as a full- time occupation, in spite of the fact that carding money, by itself, is not enough to sustain an individual with no family, friends or sponsors to rely on.

   2008, P. David Howe, The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement

   Each NSO creates and implements the criteria on how carded athletes are selected and it is the responsibility of the NSO to select them.

   2013, Popi Sotiriadou, Veerle de Bosscher, Managing High Performance Sport, page 78

7. toyHaving a chipboard or cardboard backing and encased within a shaped plastic bubble.

   A carded action figure is understood to be in mint condition.

   2012, Aaron LaPedis, The Garage Sale Millionaire

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   A carded Cheron that is mint in the carded package will keep its value of $200, but if in this example the card and blister are not mint, with, say, the bubble having a crack and the card with some damage, that figure would be valued based on the two-tier pricing at or around $150.

   2008, Steve Kelley, Star Trek The Collectibles, page 6

   Mego bought the rights for the dolls and released carded figures of the four main characters plus a baddie figure called 'Chopper'.

   2013, Anthony A McGoldrick, TV Toys, page 36

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of card