English Dictionary

card

verb

(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.

I will card the wool to make it softer.

意味（1）

(textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

Isn't that true, Bertha? asked the smith. Yes, every word of it, my lad, said Mother Bertha, who was sitting near the hearth carding.

意味（2）

To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

意味（3）

(transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.

to card a horse

意味（4）

(obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.

It is necessary that this book carded and purged of certain base things.

意味（5）

(obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.

that card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong