carding-comb

English

Noun

carding-comb (plural carding-combs)

  1. A specialised comb with a flat surface covered by serried ranks of fine teeth used to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 204:
      The other woman took a pair of carding-combs and began to card, but she had no wool upon them.
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