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Doffer vs Goffer - What's the difference?

doffer | goffer |

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 goffer is

to make wavy; to crimp.

doffer

English

(bobbin doffer)(carding doffer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * doffer shaft * ring doffer

    Related terms

    * doffing comb

    References

    (Webster 1913)

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    goffer

    English

    Verb

  • To make wavy; to crimp.
  • * 1985 , , A Maggot :
    • On the back of a chair beside the bed sits perched above the discarded chip hat something apparently precious and taken from the opened bundle on the floor: a flat white cambric hat, its fronts and sides goffered into little flutes.

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