[f. CARD v.2 + -ING1.] Card-playing. Also attrib.
1495. Act 11 Hen. VII., ii. § 5. Where disyng, cardyng, tenys pleiyng shalbe used.
1594. Bp. King, Jonas (1618), 125. To erect dicing & carding houses.
1654. Trapp, Comm. Job xxxi. 22. In Carding and Dicing he had often wished himself hanged if it were not so and so.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 24 June, 2/1. The sole source of income was derived from the carding.