carded

Adjective

carded (comparative more carded, superlative most carded)

1. Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device.
   • 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.
   • 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...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...1917, Annual Report of the Nebraska State Railway Commission to the Governor, page 193
5. Possessing an official membership card;card-carrying.
   • 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. Signed 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
   • 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
7. (toy) Having a chipboard or cardboard backing and encased within a shaped plastic bubble.
   • 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
   • A carded action figure is understood to be in mint condition.2012, Aaron LaPedis, The Garage Sale Millionaire