carded

English

Adjective

carded (comparative more carded, superlative most carded)

1. Involving the disentangling of fibers with a carding device.
   • 1910, Edward Moir, “A Battle Royal in Wool: The Side of Carded Wool”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume 22, page 656n:

     Mr. Whitman holds up the National Association of Wool Manufacturers as the representative of the carded woolen manu- facturers of the United States.

   • 1911 October 11, National Wool Grower - Volume 2, page 34:

     In the manufacture of worsted yarn the carded wool must be passed through combing machines until all the fibers lay parallel to each other.

   • 1952 June, United States Department of Agriculture: Production and Marketing Administration, Marketing Research Report, page 59:

     The carded twills include three- and four-leaf herringbone twill and three- and fou -leaf regular twill.

2. Combed.
   • 1867, Report of the Board of Trustees of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts:

     Last year the difference in gain of the uncarded steers over the carded was comparatively large.

3. straightly aligned, as if combed.
   • 2000, William Douglas O'Connor, Harrington: A Story of True Love:

     There they stretched in a carded drift of fierce white fire, smouldering in the resplendent blue, and consumed by its own intensity.

4. Listed officially on an information card.
   • 1901, Master Car Builders' Association. Arbitration Committee, Arbitration Cases, page 200:

     If it accepts a car as safe and subsequently a wreck occurs, while it cannot evade its responsibility for the wreck by attributing the failure to a carded defect ; if in place of settling for the car it elects to make the repairs , be they light or heavy , it clearly has the right to collect from the owner of the car on so unquestioned a defect as a broken side sill , which is carded for by the owner of the car.

   • 1917, Annual Report of the Nebraska State Railway Commission to the Governor, page 193:

     Trains Nos. 2 and 4 on time table No. 129 are carded to make the run between Emerson and Sioux City in respectively one hour and five minutes and one hour and ten minutes, and to make stops at all stations as to both trains with the exception of the stations of Ferry and First Street, while the carded time of trains Nos . 10 and 12 between Emerson and Sioux City are respectively one hour and one hour and five minutes .

   • 1949, National Archives (U.S.), Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, page 102:

     The jackets contain very few personal papers in contrast to the carded records for the Civil War (entry 519).

   • 2011, Robert A. Slade, The Encyclopedia of Old Fishing Lures: Made in North America, page 129:

     The third set of pictures includes two colors of the rare Feathered Wobbler, the rare Marathon Tree Spoon, a carded Kittyclaw, and a carded Gooney Bird (rare).

5. Possessing an official membership card;card-carrying.
   • 1913, The Railroad Telegrapher - Volume 30, Issue 2, page 1351:

     Tow MH had an operator nicknamed "The man who wasn't carded." He was a fair operator, a good railroad man, good hearted, always wore a smile, worked when others didn't and was always on the job. Be he did not have a card. "Did you ever think this matter over carefully?" asked a carded man.

   • 2012, Leo Anthony, Between Two Worlds: The Account of a Jet-Setting Vagrant, page 183:

     After an initial spurt of energy in which I looked around fervently for employment as a carded construction labourer, I fell into a lethargy and then depression.

   • 2023, Alyn Robert Brereton, Cowboys and Rodeos:

     Becoming a carded pro rodeo photographer is no easy task.

6. (sports) Signed onto a current season players card.
   • 1995, John Shorey, Hockey Made Easy, page 170:

     A carded player could not go down and play for the Atom "B" team unless he is first released from the Atom “A” team.

   • 2008, P. David Howe, The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement:

     In essence, a carded athlete should see training as a full- time occupation, in spite of the fact that carding money, by itself, is not enough to sustain an individual with no family, friends or sponsors to rely on.

   • 2013, Popi Sotiriadou, ‎Veerle de Bosscher, Managing High Performance Sport, page 78:

     Each NSO creates and implements the criteria on how carded athletes are selected and it is the responsibility of the NSO to select them.

7. (toy, collectables) Having a chipboard or cardboard backing and encased within a shaped plastic bubble.
   • 2008, Steve Kelley, Star Trek The Collectibles, page 6:

     A carded Cheron that is mint in the carded package will keep its value of $200, but if in this example the card and blister are not mint, with, say, the bubble having a crack and the card with some damage, that figure would be valued based on the two-tier pricing at or around $150.

   • 2012, Aaron LaPedis, The Garage Sale Millionaire:

     A carded action figure is understood to be in mint condition.

   • 2013, Anthony A McGoldrick, TV Toys, page 36:

     Mego bought the rights for the dolls and released carded figures of the four main characters plus a baddie figure called 'Chopper'.

Derived terms

• uncarded

 

Verb

carded

1. simple past and past participle of card

Anagrams

• Cadder, decard