doffer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A worker who replaces full bobbins by empty ones on the throstle or ring frames. The job was often done by children.
    — 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.

词形变化

doffers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
doffer shaft ring doffer
相关词
doffing comb

词源

Etymology tree
English doff
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English doffer
From doff + -er.
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