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carding-combs

carding-combs is the plural of carding-comb.

Meaning of carding-comb

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

Questions about carding-combs

What is carding-combs the plural of?
Carding-combs is the plural of carding-comb.

Words near carding-combs in the dictionary

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

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