"doffer" meaning in English

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      "word": "doffer shaft"
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      "word": "ring doffer"
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  "etymology_text": "From doff + -er.",
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      "form": "doffers",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "doffing comb"
    }
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          "name": "Manufacturing",
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      "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."
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        [
          "carding machine",
          "carding machine"
        ],
        [
          "device",
          "device"
        ],
        [
          "cylinder",
          "cylinder"
        ],
        [
          "teeth",
          "teeth"
        ],
        [
          "doff",
          "doff"
        ],
        [
          "strips off",
          "strip off"
        ],
        [
          "cotton",
          "cotton"
        ],
        [
          "card",
          "card"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "textile manufacturing",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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."
      ]
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              102
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          "ref": "1907, Margaret McMillan, Labour and Childhood, The Child-Hand To-Day:",
          "text": "It has more varied exercises too than has the hand of the child who enters a mill. For though a doffer or factory child does use his hand all day long, it is but a very small group of muscles that is brought into activity.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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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          "bobbin",
          "bobbin"
        ],
        [
          "throstle",
          "throstle"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "word": "doffer"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "doffer shaft"
    },
    {
      "word": "ring doffer"
    }
  ],
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  "etymology_text": "From doff + -er.",
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    {
      "form": "doffers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
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  ],
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        "en:Manufacturing"
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        "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."
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          "cylinder",
          "cylinder"
        ],
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          "teeth",
          "teeth"
        ],
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          "doff",
          "doff"
        ],
        [
          "strips off",
          "strip off"
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          "cotton",
          "cotton"
        ],
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          "card",
          "card"
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        "(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."
      ]
    },
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      ],
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        "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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          "throstle",
          "throstle"
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