Card·ing a.
 1. The act or process of preparing staple for spinning, etc., by carding it. See the Note under Card, v. t.
 2. A roll of wool or other fiber as it comes from the carding machine.
 Carding engine, Carding machine, a machine for carding cotton, wool, or other fiber, by subjecting it to the action of cylinders, or drums covered with wire-toothed cards, revolving nearly in contact with each other, at different rates of speed, or in opposite directions.  The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called slivers.

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 Comb·ing n.
 1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool.
 Note: ☞ The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long staple; short wool is carded.
 2. pl. (a) That which is caught or collected with a comb, as loose, tangled hair. (b) Hair arranged to be worn on the head.
    The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings.   --Jer. Taylor.
 (c) Naut. See Coamings.
 Combing machine Textile Manuf., a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.

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