Translation for "cardador" to english

Cardador

noun

• carder

Translation examples

carder noun

Había un cardador de lana, que venía una o dos veces al año... a casa a arreglar los colchones.
There was this wool carder who used to come around once or twice a year... to fix the mattresses.

La mañana siguiente, al pasar por delante de la tienda del cardador de lana... Via Contevete la persiana bajada, había un cartel:
Next day, while walking past the wool carder's shop... in Via Contevete... the shop shutter was down and there was a sign:

Vio a Cabeza de Ganso, el cardador de lana, y a su mujer, tan valiente en hilar.
He saw the wool-carder of the Gooses Head, and his wife, that notable woman, at the spinning-wheel.

Ella era hilandera y su marido, cardador, y casi todas las semanas se instalaban en el mismo sitio, para peinar la lana, hilarla y preparar las madejas.
She was a weaver and her husband was a carder. Most weeks they could be found in the same spot, spinning and combing, preparing their wool and threads.

En tanto que los desmotadores y cardadores y toda la gente que está detrás de las máquinas que hilan y tejen el paño apenas ganan lo suficiente para mantener quietas sus tripas.
While the doffers and carders and all the people behind the machines who spin and weave the cloth can’t hardly make enough to keep their guts quiet.

Habiendo sabido que en el barrio de los bataneros y cardadores vivía un hábil pintor, llamado Buffalmacco, le envió a su mayordomo para tratar con él respecto a estas pinturas.
Hearing that there lived in the quarter of the fullers and wool-carders a very clever painter named Buffalmacco, she despatched her Steward thither to come to an arrangement with him as to the execution of the proposed paintings.

Antes incluso de que el sol asomara, amanecían las calderas y arrancaban los ruidos de la fábrica: el enjuague de las lavadoras de lana, los latigazos de las cardadoras, los giros de las Spinning Mary, el tableteo de las contadoras, la digestión carbónica de la Steaming Eleanor.
Even before sunrise, the boilers had stirred and the noises of the mill had started up—the sloshing of the wool-rinsing machines, the cracking of the carders, the whirring of the Spinning Marys, the tapping of the meters, the rumble of coal in Steaming Eleanor’s belly.

Intentó ser maestro de escuela y supervisar a los cardadores de lana, y escribió en su diario sobre la pena que le daba el éxito obtenido en estas tareas (era un buen profesor de latín, veía lo que no veían sus estudiantes;
He tried schoolmastering and supervising wool-carders, and wrote in his journal of his distress at his success in these tasks—he was a good Latin teacher, he saw what his students did not see, he was a good supervisor, he could detect laziness and ameliorate real grievances—but he was not using his unique gifts, whatever they were, he was going nowhere, and he meant to go far.