Obs. Also 6 cardar. [f. CARD v.2 + -ER.] A card-player.
c. 1530. Hickescorner, in Singer, Hist. Cards, 251.
| Walkers by nyght, with gret murdrers | |
| Overthwarte with gyle, and joly carders. |
1580. Lupton, Sivqila, 94. There is not one Dicer nor yet Carder in all our Countrey.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 308, ¶ 6. The Carders … never begin to play till the French-Dances are finished.
