A person who cards wool or cotton, preparing fibers for spinning by using a carding machine or hand cards.
From card (from Old Norse korta) combined with the agent suffix -er, referring to someone who performs the action of carding.
Before factories, cardooers were essential workers in textile production—they'd spend hours with carding tools that look like two hairbrushes covered in wire, preparing fiber that spinners would turn into thread.
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