Definitions for doffer

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doffer doff·er

Spelling: [dof-er, daw-fer]

IPA: /ˈdɒf ər, ˈdɔ fər/

Doffer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in doffer (deffor).

Definitions for doffer

noun

1. a person or thing that doffs.
2. Textiles. a wire-clothed roller on a carding machine, especially the roller to which the carded fibers are transferred from the cylinder and then prepared for conversion into sliver. any roller that removes the fibers from another roller.

Origin of doffer

First recorded in 1815-25; doff + -er¹

Examples for doffer

doffer, dof′ėr, n. the part of a carding-machine which strips the cotton from the cylinder when carded.

Having passed the "flats," the cotton is deposited by the cylinder on what is termed the doffer.

The doffer comb, a serrated metal plate the length of the rollers, removes the carded fibers from the last roller or doffer.

The large runner and the doffer require to be cleaned together.

The tow is then removed from the brush by a doffer roller, from which it is finally removed by a doffing knife.

She saw what it meant to be a doffer, a reeler, a silk-twister.