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Definition of Doffers
1. doffer [n] - See also: doffer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doffers
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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