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Women and girls carding wool in Gotland, Sweden in the early twentieth century)
 
Using a hand carder doffer to remove carded wool from a small carding machine

carding

 
Large-scale industrial wool carding machinery
  1. present participle and gerund of card

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carding (countable and uncountable, plural cardings)

  1. (countable) A piece of wool rolled by a carding machine.
  2. (uncountable) The fraudulent trafficking of credit card details.
  3. (Canada, law enforcement) A police practice where an officer stops, questions, and documents information from a person to gather intelligence, when no crime or suspicion of crime has been committed.

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