card

card
   1. obsolete Irish
   to punish by laceration
   A 19th-century toothed tool for combing wool was a weapon used to harm those who assisted unpopular or absentee landlords:
    The widows... who... had paid their rents in full were visited a party of women with blackened faces and were 'carded' — had sheep's combs drawn through their flesh. (Kee, 1993)
   2. an argument supported by prejudice or favouritism
   The card, with a suitable prefix such as race or Welsh, is played to win a trick unfairly:
    When Peter Walker played the 'Welsh' card yet again, I dictated him a note and Carys translated it into Welsh before we dispatched it. (J. Major, 1999Walker, the Secretary of State for Wales, could not speak Welsh)

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