Doffer vs Doffed - What's the difference?
doffer | doffed |
(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.
(doff)
(clothing) to remove or take off, especially of clothing
* Shakespeare
* Emerson
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, passage=She had doffed the shirt and Bermuda-shorts which she had been wearing and was now dressed for her journey home.}}
to remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect
to get rid of, to throw off
*1778 , Charles Dibdin, The Perfect Sailor :
*:Thus Death, who kings and tars despatches,
*:For, though his body's under hatches
(reflexive) To strip; to divest; to undress.
* Crashaw
As a noun 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.As a verb doffed is
(doff).doffer
English
(bobbin doffer)(carding doffer)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* doffer shaft * ring dofferReferences
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----doffed
English
Verb
(head)doff
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Verb
(en verb)- And made us doff our easy robes of peace.
- At night, or in the rain, / He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.
- The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.
- Doff that stupid idea: it would never work.
- In vain Tom's life has doffed ,
- His soul has gone aloft.
- Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear.