Carding-comb

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Noun
  1. 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.

    "The other woman took a pair of carding-combs and began to card, but she had no wool upon them."

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"The other woman took a pair of carding-combs and began to card, but she had no wool upon them."

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