: cleansed and disentangled preparatory to spinning : prepared by the action of cards (see card entry 4 sense 1) or a carding machine
carded fibers
Roving … is a ribbon of carded wool, the fibers of which are rubbed together into a round continuous strand with no twist whatever, ready for the spinning process.—Werner Von Bergen
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