carding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of card

noun

1. (countable)A piece of wool rolled by a carding machine.
2. (uncountable)The fraudulent trafficking of credit card details.
3. (Canada, countable, uncountable)A police practice where an officer stops, questions, and documents information from a person to gather intelligence, when no crime or suspicion of crime has been committed.