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carding-comb

carding-comb noun: a specialised comb with a flat surface covered by serried ranks of fine teeth used to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.

Noun

carding-comb (plural carding-combs)

  1. A specialised comb with a flat surface covered by serried ranks of fine teeth used to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
    • The other woman took a pair of carding-combs and began to card, but she had no wool upon them.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 204

Forms of carding-comb

pluralcarding-combs

Questions about carding-comb

What does carding-comb mean?
Carding-comb means a specialised comb with a flat surface covered by serried ranks of fine teeth used to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
What part of speech is carding-comb?
Carding-comb is a noun.
What is the plural of carding-comb?
The plural of carding-comb is carding-combs.

Words near carding-comb in the dictionary

  1. cardinalships
  2. cardines
  3. carding
  4. carding machine
  5. carding machines
  6. carding-comb
  7. carding-combs
  8. cardings
  9. Cardington
  10. Cardinham
  11. Cardinia

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