[f. CARD v.2 + -ING1.] Card-playing. Also attrib.

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1495.  Act 11 Hen. VII., ii. § 5. Where disyng, cardyng, tenys pleiyng … shalbe used.

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1594.  Bp. King, Jonas (1618), 125. To erect dicing & carding houses.

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1654.  Trapp, Comm. Job xxxi. 22. In Carding and Dicing he had often wished himself hanged if it were not so and so.

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1885.  Pall Mall Gaz., 24 June, 2/1. The sole source of income was derived from the carding.

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