doffer
English
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editNoun
editdoffer (plural doffers)
- (textile manufacturing) In a carding machine, a device such as a revolving cylinder or a vibrating bar with teeth, that doffs, that is to say strips off, the carded cotton or other fiber from the cards; or a hand tool for the same function in smaller machines or in manual carding.
- A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. The job was often done by children.
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editPart 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Dutch duvers, duve (“dove, pigeon”).
Noun
editdoffer m (plural doffers, diminutive doffertje n, feminine duif or duivin)
- male dove, a cock pigeon
- Synonyms: duiver, mannetjesduif
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
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