How to pronounce “doffer”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (textile manufacturing) 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.
• A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. The job was often done by children.

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