Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which doffs; specifically, a revolving cylinder in a carding-machine, which doffs or strips off the cotton from the cards. See cut under
carding-machine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mach.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar, with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the fiber from the cards.
- noun (Spinning) A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun textile manufacturing A revolving
cylinder , or a vibrating bar withteeth , in acarding machine , whichdoffs , orstrips off , thecotton or fiber from thecards . - noun A worker who replaces full
bobbins by empty ones on thethrostle or ring frames.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The cotton bales are opened and thrown into the automatic feeder which carries up a layer of cotton on a spiked apron from which it is removed by a rapidly revolving "doffer" underneath which is a screen which catches some of the dirt.
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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The roll of webbing _A_ is beaten and transferred to the cylinder _H H_, carded by the spiked belt _E_, removed by the "doffer" and formed into a
Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson
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Women, held in Washington in 1888, Mrs. H.H. Robinson, after telling how she entered the Lowell Mills as a "doffer," when a child, gave a brilliant description of the intellectual life and interests of the workers.
Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future Helen Campbell 1878
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She ran huge, dangerous, dirty machines on a shift system, and, at 13, was a supervisor (doffer) over a whole floor of other (mostly female) workers.
Archive 2009-03-01 Helen Howes 2009
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She ran huge, dangerous, dirty machines on a shift system, and, at 13, was a supervisor (doffer) over a whole floor of other (mostly female) workers.
Ada Lovelace Day Helen Howes 2009
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The cylinder would turn this way and the doffer would turn this way, and the doffer would take it off and bring it around and make
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That dust would accumulate in the doffer as it turned between the doffer and the cylinder.
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In the mill, since he was such a good doffer, did people look up to him?
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DAVIDSON: Put up a red flag for the loom fixer, a yellow flag for the filling, and green flag for the cloth doffer.
Oral History Interview with Betty and Lloyd Davidson, 1979 February 2 and 15. Interview H-19. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Betty Davidson Betty Davidson 1979
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Paul was a doffer, and if they caught up with their frames before some of them were full enough to be doffed off, if they wanted to run to the store they could go to the store and come back, and like that.
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