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Definition of Doffing
1. doff [v] - See also: doff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doffing
Literary usage of Doffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cotton Spinning: Its Development, Principles, and Practice by Richard Marsden (1888)
"doffing, an expensive process; Bernhardt's doffing arrangement; the throstle ...
doffing; the mechanical doffer. —Inclined arrangement of the rollers. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"There are two spindles, a, (see Jig. 1382.) on each machine, for the purpose of
doffing without «topping the drawing frame and carding engines. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"on each machine, for the purpose of doffing without stopping the drawing frame
and carding engines. When one coil M Patenta of 1849 fille'l, the finger, b, ..."
4. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"Girl Waiters.—Erring Women.—The Death of n Magdalen.—doffing the Sock and
Buskin—Homeward Bound—Travelers' ..."
5. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People, 1861-1865 by Frank Moore (1886)
"Two nations make from one, And when the work is done, Over both reign alone—
Saviour of the world ! doffing THE GRAY. ..."
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