ALL meanings of doffer
doff·er
D d - noun doffer (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. 1
- noun doffer a person or thing that doffs. 1
- noun doffer 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. 1
- noun doffer A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. 0