Doffer vs Coffer - What's the difference?
doffer | coffer |
(textile manufacturing) 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.
A strongbox: a strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
(architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome; a caisson.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.135:
A cofferdam.
A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
To put money or valuables in a coffer
To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
As nouns the difference between doffer and coffer
is that doffer is (textile manufacturing) 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 while coffer is a strongbox: a strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.As a verb coffer is
to put money or valuables in a coffer.doffer
English
(bobbin doffer)(carding doffer)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* doffer shaft * ring dofferReferences
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----coffer
English
Alternative forms
* copher (obsolete) * cophre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Prolapsed and waterstained ceiling, the sagging coffers .
- He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers .
- Hold, here is half my coffer .