Contextualizebeta

doffer

noun

Etymology

From doff + -er.

  1. inherited from *dʰeh₁-✻ — “to do; to place, put”
  2. inherited from *dōną✻ — “to do; to make; to place, put”
  3. inherited from *dōn✻ — “to do; to place, put”
  4. inherited from dōn of
  5. inherited from do off
  6. inherited from doffen — “to take off (clothing); to remove (headwear) as a sign of respect; to remove (grease) by skimming”
  7. suffixed as doffer — “doff + er”

Definitions

  1. In a carding machine, a device such as a revolving cylinder or a vibrating bar with…

    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.

  2. A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. The job…

    A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. The job was often done by children.

    • It has more varied exercises too than has the hand of the child who enters a mill. For though a doffer or factory child does use his hand all day long, it is but a very small group of muscles that is brought into activity.

The neighborhood

Derived

doffer shaft, ring doffer

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doffer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA