card

verb

No English definition recorded for this entry.

portable physical object used for identification, authentication, data storage, or financial transaction
a category of paper material manufactured to be rigid and stiff

Pronunciation: /kɑːd/ / [kʰɑːd] / /kɑɹd/

Etymology: From Middle English carden, from Old French carder, from carde (“cotton card”); see Etymology 2 for more.

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.”
To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
“to card a horse”
“the carded wool, he says, Is smoothly lapp'd around those cylinders”
To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
“It is necessary that this book carded and purged of certain base things.”
To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
“that card your beer, if you see your guests begin to be drunk, half small and half strong”