carding

Verb (1)

card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

1. (US, transitive) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
   • They have to card anybody who looks 21 or younger.
2. (dated) To play cards.
   • For Corinius, who gave not a fig for music or dirges, but liked well of carding and dicing, had brought forth his dice box to play with the son of Corund.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 32
3. (transitive) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
   • McIlroy carded a stellar nine-under-par 61 in the final round.

Verb (2)

card (third-person singular simple present cards, present participle carding, simple past and past participle carded)

1. 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.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 252
2. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
3. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
   • to card a horse

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