doffer (English, noun)
expansion: doffer (plural doffers)
Senses:
qualifier: textile manufacturing
glosses: In a carding machine, a device such as a revolving cylinder or a vibrating bar with teeth, that doffs, that is to say strips off, the carded cotton or other fiber from the cards; or a hand tool for the same function in smaller machines or in manual carding.
glosses: A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. The job was often done by children.
Forms:
form: doffers
tags: plural