English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) doff
Noun
doffer (plural doffers)
- (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 370: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "textile manufacturing" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards.
- A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “doffer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Dutch
Noun
doffer m (plural doffers, diminutive doffertje n)
- male dove
Adjective
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