An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

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

To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding; as, to card wool; to card a horse.

A wire-toothed brush or a machine fitted with rows of wire teeth, used to disentangle fibers, as of wool, prior to spinning.

iron-toothed instrument for combing out wool or flax.

Implement for raising nap on cloth, essentially an iron instrument with teeth. A similar instrument used to part, comb out and set in order fibers of wool and hemp.

separate the fibers of; "tease wool"

an instrument for combing, opening and breaking wool , flax etc

A textile machine or hand implement that separates fibers, removes some vegetation and spreads the fibers into a web for subsequent operations that culminate in spinning. The hand implement has iron teeth or wires and is used in pairs. It can be used to raise the nap on a fabric.

Stiff wire brush used to disentangle and straighten cotton fibres prior to spinning.

A machine for combing and paralleling fibers of cotton, flax, or wool prior to spinning in order to remove short, undesirable fibers.

To comb or open as wool, flax, cotton, etc. with a card for purposes of cleansing it of extraneous matter; separating the coarse parts and making it fine and soft for spinning.

A machine that combs or works fibers between fine surfaces or points to separate, clean and align the fibers.