carding-comb

noun

noun

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.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 204:

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