carding
['kɑ:diŋ]
n. (毛、棉等)梳

[建] 起毛, 起绒

1. Any of the four or five highest cards, especially the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of the trump suit, in card games such as bridge or whist.
   牌扑游例桥牌惠斯特牌，尤指点、王、王、王牌10
2. Printing business cards on a thirty-inch press is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
   30英寸印刷印刷片简材，。
3. The police were carding the patrons.
   ( 警察身证。

Card \Card\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Carded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Carding}.]
To play at cards; to game. --Johnson.


Carding \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.