doffer

[ dof-er, daw-fer ]

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

1
First recorded in 1815–25; doff + -er1

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