card-wire
, card + wire.
Searchable Lemmata: carde (ME), card-wire (MdE).
Alternate Forms: cardewire, cardwyre.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Manufacture;
wire used to make the teeth of a card (for carding wool, etc.). The term also exists in the ME compound cardewirdrawer.(1435 - ante 1525 ?)
1. The smythier & the brakemen wern to-gider & no mo, and the cardwirdrawers & the Middlemen to-gider and no mo ... Then the Cardwirdrawers and the myddelmen most nedes bye the wire that they shull wirche of the smythiers ... [183] ... The seyd wurthymen ... han ordened ... that no smythier ... bye ne selle ... ne Cardwyre ne mystermannes wyre.
Legal.
[MED Cov.Leet Bk. (182-183) ante 1525]
Sex: N/A Use: Secular Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, ME carde (card) + wire.
WF: Compound
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