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Doffer   Listen
noun
Doffer  n.  
1.
(Mach.) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar, with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the fiber from the cards.
2.
(Spinning) A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.





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"Doffer" Quotes from Famous Books



... wasn't any too scrupulous whose property he took; but at least he took the things he seized more for the public good than his own, I really believe. For instance, there was Lewis Paul's carding engine; he introduced that into Lancashire and added to it a stripping comb, or doffer, that made it about fifty per cent. better than it ever had been before. That is what he did to everything he touched. He swooped down on any machine he saw and then proceeded to improve it. It ...
— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett


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