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Pero no tenía suficiente latón para hacer estos peines de cardar esenciales para producir lana.
But she didn't have enough brass to make these carding combs essential in the production of wool.
Era un viejecito muy, muy bajo... y cuando se sentaba a horcajadas en su banqueta a cardar la lana... daba risa, porque... parecía un niño en un caballito de juguete.
He was a little old man... and when he would sit astride over his stool to card the wool... he made us laugh, because... he looked like a little kid on a wooden horse.
Hubo cerveza por el patio, y nadie cardar que nunca para ver si eran menores de veintiuno.
There was ale by the yard, and nobody ever carded you to see if you were under twenty-one.
Los soldados recargaban, apuntaban y disparaban con la precisión aceitada de las filas de bobinas de una máquina de cardar.
The troopers reloaded, aimed and fired, with the oiled precision of rows of bobbins on a carding machine.
Estaba confeccionado a mano: el proceso de esquilar, cardar, darle la vuelta al paño y teñir la lana, realizado por personas, no por máquinas.
It had been made by hand—complete with the sheep being hand-sheared and the wool carded, spun, and dyed by human labor, not machines.
Los hombres de labios ensangrentados que le bajarían a la tumba volverían algún día a la fábrica a cardar, hilar, tejer y teñir.
The men with blood-stained lips who carried him down to his grave would some day go back to the mill to card and spin and weave and dye.
¿Hablo en sueños? —Me miró con los ojos cubiertos de legañas, con la plateada barba enredada como vellón antes de cardar, con la expresión que da el sueño.
Talking in my sleep?" He looked at me blearily, silver beard tangled like fleece wool before carding, face stupid with sleep.
En esa factoría hay una máquina, operada por un hombre y alimentada por una noria, que puede cardar en una jornada la misma lana que nueve hombres con el método antiguo.
“In that mill is a machine, operated by one man and powered by a waterwheel, that can card as much wool in a day as nine men could the old way.”
Un cuadro de piqueros recorría las calles, con los rangos y filas tan erizados como un cepillo de cardar la lana, seguido de arqueros tocados con chatos yelmos que cargaban aljabas rebosantes de flechas y arcos en bandolera.
A square of pikemen marched along the streets, ranks and files bristling like a carding comb, followed by bowmen in flat, rimmed helmets, with filled quivers riding at their hips and bows slanted across their chests.
Habían empezado a coser su propia ropa a medida que las prendas que habían llevado del Datum iban desgastándose: recogían cáñamo, lino, algodón y lana de sus ovejas y ahora también de las de Lobsang, que estaban aprendiendo a cardar, hilar y tejer.
They had started making their own clothes as the stock they had brought from the Datum slowly wore out; they gathered hemp, flax, cotton, and wool from their own sheep and now Lobsang’s, which they were learning to card, spin and weave.
¡Haced vuestra parte!» pero Rasa veía a Shedemei acarreando agua todos los días, mientras Sevet y Kokor chismorreaban, fingiendo cardar pelo de camello para trenzar cordeles, y tía Rasa nunca decía nada.
Do your fair share!" But Rasa saw Shedemei carryng the water every day now, saw her carry the water right past where Sevet and Kokor were gossiping as they pretended to card camel hair and twine it into string, and Aunt Rasa never said a thing.
verb
Requieren cardar mucho el pelo, además de mucha laca y muchos rulos.
There’s a lot of teasing and hair spray and hair rollers involved.
Satisfecha, tomó asiento mientras su doncella empezaba a desenroscar las tenacillas de plomo del pelo y a cardar los rizos para que quedaran perfectos—.
Satisfied, she sat as her maid began to untwist the lead strips from her hair and tease the ringlets into perfection.
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