Doffer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Doffer is a noun meaning A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. The job was often done by children.
Meaning
A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. The job was often done by children.
More Meanings
- (textile manufacturing) 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.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- doffers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include distaffe, dook, duffel, dobbie, duffle, dowl.
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