Associations to the word «Doffer»
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Wiktionary
DOFFER, noun. (textile manufacturing) A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton or fiber from the cards.
DOFFER, noun. A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.