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Surname Etymology and Meaning of CARD

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A word used in some parts of Scotland to denote a traveling tinker. Ceairde, Gaelic, a tradesman.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

1. English: metonymic occupational name for someone who carded wool (i.e. disentangled it), preparatory to spinning, from Middle English, Old French card(e) ‘carder’, an implement used for this purpose.
2. Reduced form of Irish McCard.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)