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take off

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Synonyms for doff

to take from one's own person

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Behind the doffer remained the two carding drums, which passed the fibers over the top, smoothing and aligning them.
As Thomas Dawley discovered upon his first visit to a cotton mill in Asheville, North Carolina, some sixty years later, white children working as doffers managed to snatch occasional moments of tolerated play despite their factory work (17-18).
He said: "The Tidy Doffer is a pub I would have eaten in on a number of occasions and it would have been a popular spot for visitors to the area.
In the Vaillancourt family, three teenaged daughters (nineteen, seventeen, and thirteen years old), worked as a stitcher, winder, and doffer, supporting the rest of their family with their earnings.
THE Tidy Doffer is out of the way, but it's firmly on the beaten track as far as good pubs go.
This roll, not to be mixed up with randomizing or condenser rolls, is a fast turning roll that is sitting between main cylinder and doffer. This technology allows for re-orienting fibers into cross direction (CD) as well as it boosts throughput capacity.
Louis, MO, May 31, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The Haynes Doffer Grinders from Tier-Rack Corporation are designed to grind doffers from cotton pickers made by either Case IH or John Deere.
The machine on display will be a round magazine feeding one, provided with an efficient and fast automatic doffer.
Doffer: Worker who took off bobbins from the spinning mules.
THE TIDY DOFFER, Ravernet, Co Down, is a sizeable pub-cum-restaurant which shows its character with an impressive thatched roof and a pen of grazing donkeys in the back garden.
The use of special clothing geometries in the nonwovens industry, like the worker and doffer wires SiroLockA(r) and EvoStepA(r) leads to better fiber control and a more even web.