Definition of "wool-carder" [wool-carder]

• One who cards wool. See wool-carding. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He shall no longer be a wool-carder, for such are not now men of mark."
• "He preached a sermon against the pretended reformation, to prove it destitute of a lawful mission; it being begun at Meaux, by Peter Clark, a wool-carder; at"
• "He learned the clothier's trade, he was apprenticed to a wool-carder, and he served his time at the woodpile, in the harvest field, and as chore boy."