Definition of Doffers

1. Noun. (plural of doffer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Doffers

1. doffer [n] - See also: doffer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doffers

does time
does up
doeskin
doeskins
doesn't
doesn't have both oars in the water
doesna
doesnae
doesnt
doest
doeth
dof
doff
doffed
doffer
doffers (current term)
doffing
doffs
dog's
dog's-bane
dog's-ear
dog's-tongue
dog's-tooth check
dog's-tooth violet
dog's age
dog's bollocks
dog's breakfast
dog's breakfasts

Literary usage of Doffers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Cotton Spinner and Managers' and Carders' Guide: A Practical by Robert H. Baird (1863)
"The doffers and cylinders should have cast-steel axles, and the cylinders should be exactly balanced; for, if they are heavier on one Bide than on the other ..."

2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"COVERING RING doffers 39. Many carders have difficulty in clothing ring doffers, the rings being made endless and of a slightly smaller diameter than the ..."

3. Lancashire Characters and Places by Thomas Newbigging (1891)
"THE Factory doffers of Lancashire are an institution in themselves, ... I speak of them as "Lancashire Factory doffers," as though this class of workers ..."

4. Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing in the United States of America by Thomas William Uttley (1905)
"A large corporation—Power from the Merrimack— Hours and holidays—Strippers as can tenters- Rates and productions on fly frames—doffers and back-boys instead ..."

5. Self-help by the People: Thirty-three Years of Co-operation in Rochdale by George Jacob Holyoake (1882)
"Since that time two generations of " doffers' have bought their butter and oatmeal at the ... The 'doffers' are lads from ten to fifteen, who take off full ..."

6. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1879)
"The ' doffers' are the gamins of Rochdale. The ' doffers' are lads from ten to fifteen, who take off full bobbins from the spindles, and put them on empty ..."

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