card
/kɑɹd/ verb C2- To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- 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
He/she/it cards · Past carded · Past participle carded · -ing form carding
Verb forms
- Base form
- card
- He/she/it
- cards
- Past
- carded
- Past participle
- carded
- -ing form
- carding
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Ruby Gillis gave me an apple and Sophia Sloane lent me a lovely pink card with ‘May I see you home?’ on it.
Diana gave me a beautiful card with a wreath of roses on it and a verse of poetry:”
First a card with “For the Anne-girl and Merry Christmas,” written on it; and then, a pair of the daintiest little kid slippers, with beaded toes and satin bows and glistening buckles.
Elizabeth was so much caught by what passed, as to leave her very little attention for her book; and, soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr.
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