card
/kɑɹd/ noun C2- Material with embedded short wire bristles.
- A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
- A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
Plural cards
From the library
The card he had meant to lay upon my body was lying beside his own.
upon the card by the dead body might stand for Vermissa Valley, or that this very valley which sends forth emissaries of murder may be that Valley of Fear of which we have heard.
So does the card on the body, which might have been prepared in the house.
According to the story given to us, the assassin had less than a minute after the murder had been committed to take that ring, which was under another ring, from the dead man’s finger, to replace the other ring—a thing which he would surely never have done—and to put that singular card beside his victim.
Other matches
Learn card in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.