doff
verb (used with object)
- to strip (carded fiber) from a carding machine.
- to remove (full bobbins, material, etc.) from a textile machine.
noun
- the act of removing bobbins, material, etc., and stripping fibers from a textile machine.
- the material so doffed.
Origin of doff
Examples from the Web for doff
Contemporary Examples of doff
Ivory Coast is “The Elephants,” Nigeria “The Super Eagles,” but doff your cap to Cameroon: “The Indomitable Lions.”
Doff your shirt, and it can make you all-powerful, as it does Shane Carwin of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
There were rumors, too, that nuns might be permitted to doff their habits and move through the world like 'normal' people.
Historical Examples of doff
I heard him retorting, as he assisted me to doff my doublet.
Bardelys the MagnificentRafael Sabatini
Presently you may doff it for all time, and resume your true estate.
The Shame of MotleyRaphael Sabatini
In the fields, the corn-gatherers pause to doff their hats and smile their welcome.
Plantation SketchesMargaret Devereux
And she began at once to talk of the puppies, whom she had named Don and Doff.
BeyondJohn Galsworthy
Without rising, Zuchin asked me to have some vodka and to doff my tunic.
YouthLeo Tolstoy